We even have pretty big defense mechanisms when it comes to this within our own mind. We will often wiggle, squirm, and find any way that we can to not have to admit we are wrong.

This is not a true statement for humans, this result of years of indoctrination.

Our govern-cement schooling trains us in a way that makes us associate our ego with the things we have been schooled. Attacking someone's position is psychologically attacking someone with an epee.

Our schooling is, you will repeat this exercise until you give us the answer that we want. And all the "good" children will be praised, and all the "bad" children will be mocked. And it doesn't matter what the answer is, in fact, the more unrealistic the better. In this way, you develop people that can't ever question the indoctrination.