Pet hypothesis: it is the natural response of the human mind to a unresolvable and conflict between it's world model and its experiential data. This leads to a

Pet hypothesis: it is the natural response of the human mind to a unresolvable and conflict between it's world model and its experiential data. This leads to a lot of problems, because we are reluctant to act on predictions made by a known incorrect model. It is very unpleasant in the same way the pain of a broken leg is unpleasant, and for roughly the same reason. Sometimes we double down on the obviously broken model, insisting that reality change instead, which often leads to anger and violence. Other times we simply give up and seek to end the discomfort by medical or suicidal means instead. Ideally, we are able to incorporate the data into a new world model that better reflects reality and that we can make decisions with in confidence. We go through a bunch of these during our lives, especially as children and adolescents, but society and culture have incorporated mechanisms to help young minds build new, more accurate, world models so it usually isn't much of a problem. However, we're at a point in our societal development where more and more minds are seeing the failures of their world model that society has no answer for.