You must have a clear and defined self/ego before you can move beyond it. Once you have, you still operate with your ego. Transcending it doesn't mean destroying it. You don't want to destroy your ego.
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If you want a real idea of how spurious most psychology research is, look no further than literally anything you know...
I'd be amazed, but I distinctly remember PhD teachers in uni with worse research premises than this. Really hard to take the field seriously sometimes.
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My friend who recently completed a psychology PhD, basically considers the entire field an omnishambles.
He left psych to work as a data analyst, and considers that marginally better - although significantly limited (as per meta-rationality)
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jesus christ... the conflation of ego and self in the article is staggering. and the data metrics are so nebulous. “omnishambles,” is dead accurate - Jung knew that the standard scientific method was woefully inadequate for study of the human mind, but everyone trudged on anyway.
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This is all leaving aside the point that they have no idea what the actual teachings are, at all.
Ego death is a child's dream or a cult guru's promise. Nobody even takes it seriously who isn't a kid, a moron or worse.
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"We will study this thing but have no idea what priors to establish, but somehow our research will turn out to reveal something useful."
O...k?
yeah, there’s a nagging sense of “just go along with it” encoded in it all, to me.
behavioral/self-reporting stuff is crap, but there’s some useful things going on in *cognitive* psych at least, particularly method-of-levels - an application of perceptual control theory
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Useful things going on everywhere in psychology. The problem is the ridiculously low standard of research & bad scientific theory.
When it isn't fatuous crap like this, the research is often interesting and engaging. But for that, might as well read a novel. Needs *methodology*.
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