Evolutionary psychology's emotional foundation is simply respect for our ancestors and gratitude for their legacy.
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Then you need an emotional update, analogous to a cognitive update. A different way to map the science's (non-intuitive) content onto one's values, concerns, and motives.
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I believe that this really is the goal of education — to connect abstract concepts and theories to our primordial systems of motivation.
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Depends on the facts/emotions. Something like respect for the fact that our ancestors are why we're here seems unlikely to encounter factual barriers. It's an emotional state that can adapt to many configuration of facts, maybe any configuration.
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If we realize we're in a simulation or some other scenario that disproves that our ancestors ever existed, grad students previously feeling good about their field is going to be the least of the mental/emotional collateral damage that society is going to have to cope with.
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And the potential coordination and motivation benefits seem to outweigh risks. The reason we change our minds is the fear/guilt/shame/curiosity/social signaling emotional config that adherence to false beliefs creates. Better to integrate it as a tool than to avoid it imho.
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