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If you keep hearing the wrong answer and have invested emotionally in the wrong answer, you will internally resolve any conflict by finding a way to rationalize that it is really the right answer … and so end up believing things that are simply not true.
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Carl Sagan said in his book “Demon Haunted World” something to the effect that the idea of reason and evidence-based thinking was not innate, was recently developed and always struggles against human nature, in spite of the fact that humans are technology-using animals.
The ability to live without certainty, and to change one’s views because of evidence seems to me to be a power tool for life.