José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena -- Why does the brain refuse to change?

Our brains are not looking for the truth, but for everything to be coherent is what is true for them. And they become entrenched there. Once we are committed to something coherent, the whole potential of our mind begins to mobilise, which will defend that coherence as the truth. It will no longer be necessary to continue expending energy, or to modify the architecture [...]