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Humans in general are great at coming up with reasons to maintain their desired beliefs in the face of contradictory data. More intelligent and educated people aren’t necessarily better at critical thinking, but they are likely to be more clever and creative in coming up with such excuses—and scientists are no exception.

It is quite possible that, because our brains evolved to give us the very useful illusion of a continuous stream of seamless consciousness, we evolved to not easily grasp our own consciousness. That would require piercing the illusion.