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Of course, the brain isn't perfect. The fact that humans can't always or even can't usually apply truths doesn't make them untrue.
Pressing a button kills one person, not pressing the button kills two people. utility(1 death) + utility(1 death) < utility(1 death)
Assuming it's bad to teach consequentialism to people doesn't make consequentialism wrong. It's bad to teach people how to make bombs but that doesn't mean the knowledge to create bombs is incorrect. See Ethical Injunctions
Such thought experiments often make unlikely assumptions such as perfect knowledge of consequences. That doesn't make the conclusions of those thought experiments wrong, it just constrains them to unlikely situations.
Qualitative analysis is still computable. If humans can do something it is computable.
Solomonoff induction is a formalized model of prediction of future events.