This experience-based primitivity also means inter-temporal self identification only goes one way. Since there is no access to subjective experience from the future, I cannot directly identify which/who would be my future self. I can only say which person is me in the past, as I have the memory of experiencing from its perspective.
While there is large difference in practice between recalling past event and anticipating future event, on conceptual level there is no meaningful difference. You don’t have direct access to past events, memory is just an especially simple and reliable case of inference.
While there is large difference in practice between recalling past event and anticipating future event, on conceptual level there is no meaningful difference. You don’t have direct access to past events, memory is just an especially simple and reliable case of inference.