Truly different ideas also have to prevail against cultural assumptions, on which large numbers of people have built their lives. Otherwise it is just patching over the problems.

One of the more obvious examples has to do with the nature of time.

As these mobile organisms, necessitating a sequential process of perception and having developed civilization out of narrative based cultures, we experience time as the point of the present, moving past to future, which physics codifies as measures of duration.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events come and go.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Making time an effect and measure of action, similar to temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't refer to them as the 5th and 6th dimensions of space, because they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not the sequence of thought.

Time is asymmetric because it is a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction.

The premise of determinism is meaningless, as the process of determination can only occur as the present. While free will is equally meaningless, as an act free of cause would be equally free of effect and the premise of will is to affect. We are a small part of nature's process of selection.

Yet try raising such a point in any academic context, from philosophy to theoretical physics and the possibility of being ignored, if not banned, is high.

The fact is that education is also indoctrination, from our first words in whatever language is native, up through all the layers of cultural, social, professional development and inclusion. Adult cells don't go back to being stem cells and it is profoundly easier to ignore conflicting information, than it is to significantly alter one's beliefs.

We still refer to the sun as rising in the east and setting in the west. Our beliefs are our reality.