"I certainly was trying to bewilder you on purpose for good reasons. I was probably also trying harder and harder to bewilder you because you never showed any overt emotional signs of being bewildered."
"I'm - actually running into a small stumbling block about trying to explain mentally why it's better to give wrong answers than no answers? It feels too obvious to explain? I mean, I vaguely remember being told about experiments where, if you don't do that, people sort of revise history inside their own heads, and aren't aware of the processes inside themselves that would have produced the previous wrong or suboptimal answer, and if you don't make them notice they're confused, they'll go back and revise history and think that the way they already thought would've handled the questions perfectly fine."