In some sense, there isn't a decision. In order to sort of pick out what is happening and see its rationality, you have to see a stretch of time. If if we recognize that the utility or pleasure we're going to get from our choices is uncertain, we solved that with either saying, oh, and i'm doing it over a lifetime. It's intertemporal utility maxinization. Or i might say, i'll do expected utility, which is a really sterile, narrow concept. And i think that view of the economic project is a, i used to like it. I don't like it so much any more. There's something robotic about it. At only

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