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In article <EMV.90Feb19165418@duby.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
   What do you gain from delaying except delay ?

A damping, or at least phase-shifting, effect on behavioral feedback
loops.  More deliberated thinking from the intellect than from the
brain stem or from wrist reflexes.