Hrm... While on the one hand I can look at her position and basically react with a "your mind is entirely alien to me", on the other hand, I can actually imagine being in that state.

That does NOT mean, of course, that it is a reasonable state to be in, but it does seem to be the sort of state that my mind can support.

I guess the basic key is that human minds aren't necessarally naturally consistent. So we can end up in actual inconsistent states. Including states a bit confused about consistency itself.

A bit more of a personal example would be a state I sometimes recall having been in in the past, and have certainly seen in others, would be when one might say something like, oh, I dunno, "and scientifically, the universe is about 13.7 billion years old and earth is about 4.5 billion years old" and of course, the world was created about 6000 years ago."

As near as I can tell, happens is that we almost imagine the "scientific world" and the "religious world" as parallel universes that... are actually the same one, so mentally we keep track of it by keeping track of different things.

The way this works is someone might manage to end up in a state that they completely fail to really face the question of "okay, but if you rewind time a bit, will you see 6000 years ago the universe poofing into existence, or can you go farther back, etc? ie, what ACTUALLY happened in ACTUAL REALITY?"

Then, when facing that question, all sorts of Escher mentality stuff starts forming as a defense. But what I think initially happens, at least in part, is sort of mentally tracking those as being about different subjects, rather than contradictory statements about the same thing. So that one will end up, with "science glasses", visualizing prehistoric humans doing stuff tens of thousands of years ago, while etc etc etc...

At least, that's my own, partly introspective model of what's going on here, of how people can end up in these states.