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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I take some small solace that it's early days for the science. Medicine spent centuries without a working model for many parts of the disease process.
On the roadmap, we are not far removed from humours - or in fact, I'd say a lot of the work in neuropsychology is exactly there.