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Well, the gang doesn't actually seem to do much updating -- especially Shaggy and Scooby. You would think that after the first dozen monsters turned out to be people in costumes, they might start reducing p(need to run away) upon encountering a "monster", but this never happened, as far as I can tell.
Similarly, Wile E. Coyote never figures out that he can fly by harnessing the influence his "not looking down" has on gravity.
Think of the individual members of the Scooby gang not as separate people, but as separate modules in the brain. Our inner Shaggy and Scooby never stop freaking out, no matter how convinced we are that there is no actual monster. But we do stop taking them seriously and trust our inner Velmas.
You might think this planet would update, and yet it doesn't. That part of the show is perfectly accurate as a metaphor.