I feel like you could make a pretty good rationalist children’s book, consisting only of a series of stories in which a protagonist is forced to draw an increasingly unpalatable conclusion, under increasingly hard circumstances. Show the pain of the struggle, and make a virtue out of the triumph.
You can throw in some alternative cases as well. But, as it stands, I don’t think a strong bias towards discarding deeply held beliefs is a big problem in humans. We can meander quite a distance in that direction before it begins to become a problem.
I feel like you could make a pretty good rationalist children’s book, consisting only of a series of stories in which a protagonist is forced to draw an increasingly unpalatable conclusion, under increasingly hard circumstances. Show the pain of the struggle, and make a virtue out of the triumph.
And then children get the lesson that changing your mind is always a good thing. The new idea is always right.
You can throw in some alternative cases as well. But, as it stands, I don’t think a strong bias towards discarding deeply held beliefs is a big problem in humans. We can meander quite a distance in that direction before it begins to become a problem.