How do you convince a person you've never met with memory loss and personality changes you can't predict, to do things that you want? That sounds hard.
You are imagining a worst case scenario. I think in most cases the future-me will still have significant similarity to present-me, which should make things easier.
You might try writing things down in a journal as a general mnemonic strategy.
There is a practical problem here. Assuming future-me forgot about the journal, how do I remind him? A tattoo, maybe? :-)
There is a practical problem here. Assuming future-me forgot about the journal, how do I remind him? A tattoo, maybe? :-)
Give that task to a friend that you trust.
Reading a Reddit thread about the experiences of people who woke up after a long coma, got me thinking. If something similar happens to me, I might wake up with a significant portion of my memories gone (not to mention changes of personality). The question is, how do I make sure that the amnesiac future-me will continue to pursue the goals of present-me?
This can be divided into 3 sub-questions:
Any suggestions?
PS. You may ask, why am I focusing on goals? I'll just let agent Smith speak for me.