Reply #4: I will stick to seemingly

[Az]

I have seen people who when faced with irrefutable evidence that a concept is flawed will stick to it. My understanding of the nature of the mind suggests that even a blatant obvious truth cannot overcome a sufficiently strong emotional belief. This is not a flaw of the brain. It is simply how it works. So the paths we wind up on determine the weight of our emotional beliefs. For some the emotional investment of some beliefs can be extreme.

In these circumstances it seems to us that they continue to ignore a fact. Which seems to us unreasonable. But to their mind they may simply be unable to accept that their beliefs are flawed. Thus their mind does not hold the facts as presented to them and discards what does not fit their world view.