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He is using "mind" in a broader sense than people usually do with the phrase "change your mind".
A reasonable interpretation could be "changing one of your beliefs doesn't automatically change your other related beliefs, your aliefs, your habits and your behavioral triggers". But "changing your mind" could also mean "changing anything about your mind, such as a personality trait or even a mood".
Another example: Learning that an opinion of yours was wrong does not destroy all the broken cognitive processes that generated the wrong opinion in the first place.
I think people are seriously underestimating the value of this quote, but then again of course I do; I'm the one who posted it.
For instance, becoming intellectually convinced that sexual jealousy is a bad idea does not purge you of experiencing any.
Ah. So not only is he using "mind" unusually, he's also using "opinion" unusually. And "change" idiomatically.
Well then, it's trivial!