I’ve reflected on this thought of mine, and have since realized that this very much poses a question of whether, in this case, these people are neurotic so they engage in these kinds of recursive self loops, or if they’re neurotic because they engage in them. Then, when is the supposed intelligence it grants introduced to the subject who is experiencing this? Does neuroticism have some positive correlation with openness to experience, or, more likely, is it just specific to this particular experience, as it is distinguished from a broader facet of neuroticism as might be called depression?