>>13386809Yet paralysis of the sort probably has survival value, as a behavior, in a certain roughly statistical way:
>As far as I can tell, all of my present options equally suck, so the best choice is to await a change in circumstance, opportunity, or availability, etc., however slight. This has saved me from a great deal of buyer's remorse over the years, not to mention the rehearsal-enhancing effect of sleeping on a decision. Foresight and imagination are linked, just as much as the ongoing reality-checking that revises both is. Rather more of our accuracy in all regimes of foresight has an analogy to anticipating weather & seasons & such than is generally supposed.
