Lol, LW, you've been listening to Ajahn Brahm again.
BTW, you are wrong about animals not being able to make predictions. There's a beautiful study on (monkeys, I think?) where starving animals were given a choice between taking food or not if it meant a companion gets a nasty shock. Very significantly, these animals did NOT choose to take the food, even tho very hungry.
Second thoughts can generally be amended with judicious action; injudicious actions can seldom be recovered with second thoughts.
--Cyteen by C.J.Cherryh