One of the major purposes of any sort of combat training (martial arts or military) is to instil pre-designed behavioural patterns that will be effective in the majority of probable encounters; the same thing goes for interpersonal relations, and intellectual heuristics. I suspect that we'll never be done with these sorts of tricks in one form or another, since having the assortment of batch-files which leads to these errors will generally be more efficient than trying to run Slackware. That said, it's obvious how our innate set, customized as it is to the ancestral environment, is absolutely awful for scientific thinking. I think they're a large part of the reason why thermodynamics is such a mystical field for most people, when the inherent concepts are so incredibly simple.