Indeed, I agree, it is a mental decision integrated into the evolutionary events of human beings. Women, for example, who live in agrarian communities always have as many children on average as they ensure survival. Without any artificial intervention, such as contraceptives or fertilisation. This is not a conscious decision, but a culturally mental one that reveals itself through the reality of life. Nothing forced, but something natural. The birth population functions perfectly well if you don't mess with it. Modern humans, who seem to think themselves the dumbest species on the planet and want to regulate everything from biology to social behaviour, regularly underestimate themselves in their evolutionary learning experiences and just as permanently overestimate themselves in their ability to control. Probably because it seems that we have already achieved everything and always want to invent something new out of boredom and impatience. The self-regulatory power of systems can unfold if there is a very deliberate and balanced form of cultivation, also in interaction with the plant and animal world, which are, after all, inevitably linked to human evolution.

If you could live again, would you live this life exactly the same, eternally, without ever advancing to the next stage?

This is a mental experiment to which I would respond that I would probably live the same life with the very choices I made, based on my knowledge at that time. But since I know more today than I did when I was sixteen, twenty-five or thirty, I would do and decide some things differently. Whether I would then be the person I am today is open to question. Mistakes certainly need not be regretted, because they simply cannot be undone. You live with them and learn from them. Basically, it's about experiences and reflecting on them. I may have done everything differently in my life, changed every decision I made, but as far as I don't put any reflective thought into it, it basically doesn't matter what I did exactly when.