https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166378/ … "Sense of foreshortened future" is a commonly attested symptom of PTSD. Lots of useful concepts in this article.
Is the world benevolent? Well, of course, bad things happen. But there's a kind of belief-in-a-benevolent-universe that is required to even move a muscle; if you sincerely believed "anything that can go wrong, will", no planned action would be worth engaging in.
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likewise, in order to move your arm to pick up an object, you must believe in a certain amount of intelligibility in the universe, and you must not be paralyzed by the belief that you don't "deserve" to move your arm.
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This seems like a strange definition of benevolence. The universe merely being *stable*, if not particularly invested in my success wouldn't qualify in my book.
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