I definitely agree with you here—I didn’t talk about it as much in this post, but in the psychedelics post I linked, I wrote:
People are not actually very good at reasoning. If you metaphorically heat up their brain to a temperature that dissolves all their preconceptions and forces them to basically reroll all of their beliefs, then a few of them that were previously correct are going to come out wrong. F&CH’s theory that they are merely letting evidence propagate more fluidly through the system runs up against the problem where, most of the time, if you have to use evidence unguided by any common sense, you probably get a lot of things wrong.
The best defense of therapy in this model is that you’re concentrating on the beliefs that are currently most dysfunctional, so by regression to the mean you should expect them to get better!
I definitely agree with you here—I didn’t talk about it as much in this post, but in the psychedelics post I linked, I wrote:
The best defense of therapy in this model is that you’re concentrating on the beliefs that are currently most dysfunctional, so by regression to the mean you should expect them to get better!