- For each action we make, there is a lot of future events, which means as we continue down the path of the future events of those, the chance of it occuring becomes less probable. if we thought too much about the future we would be overwhelmed by possibilities beyond irrational thoughts - similar to spiralling of negative perception in self 1 - this is what promotes [[Adaptability]] - but this adaptiveness creates [[Self-deception]] - as we focus on short-term (smoking), we are incapable of processing the long-term abstract effects (abstract death is high but specific deaths are low so we overlook them) - We can't throw away this mechanism of ours - if we don't keep it we will be scared of going to get up from bed because of all the thing that can happen - massive [[Anxiety]], but if we don't we will end up reaching these unfavorable outcomes because we don't think about the future - a side effect of [[Hedonism]] - We learned to generate abstract thought by generalizing these outcomes - This is the art of [[Anagoge]]