But then if you get triggered again, you're back to being the person you were before, so you'll conclude the epiphany was "fake." It wasn't -- you really were in a better, saner state temporarily. But it wasn't a "cure" either.
You're saying that "rationality" already adequately incorporates the idea that people become biased because they're in emotional pain?
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I had certainly thought so! But don't have an explicit model and it's possible my implicit one explains too much
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If the baseline, untrained, uneducated person is *about as irrational as it gets*, and most people are at "baseline", then you'd see a few people overcoming this baseline state, and most people staying there.
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