If you go through a belief update process and it feels like the wrong belief got confirmed, the fact that you feel like the wrong belief won means that there’s still some other belief in your brain disagreeing with that winner. In those kinds of situations, if I am approaching this from a stance of open exploration, I can then ask “okay, so I did this update but some part of my mind still seems to disagree with the end result; what’s the evidence behind that disagreement, and can I integrate that”?
I sometimes find that memories and the beliefs about the world that they power are “stacked” several layers deep. It’s rare to find a memory directly connected to a mistaken ground belief, and it’s more normal that 2, 3, 4, or even 5 memories are all interacting through twists and turns to produce whatever knotted and confused sense of the world I have.
I sometimes find that memories and the beliefs about the world that they power are “stacked” several layers deep. It’s rare to find a memory directly connected to a mistaken ground belief, and it’s more normal that 2, 3, 4, or even 5 memories are all interacting through twists and turns to produce whatever knotted and confused sense of the world I have.