Ego-- harmful delusion or pragmatic necessity?

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Science is best.

By that, I mean science is the one and only reliable method we have for learning the truth about reality. If anyone has a better method to propose, which is as reliable or better, or can investigate things accurately science cannot, I'd love to hear about it!

Call it an argument from ignorance if you want, technically it is. But "science" can be seen as a metaphor for "our best tools to get the truth". This is not a static set of tools. And I don't understand the idea that we should not use those tools because there "might be better ones". Until we find better ones, these are our best. As we find better ones, we include them, discarding older ones if appropriate, or improve them. And they work. That's the important bit. They work. "Other ways of knowing things" have not been demonstrated to work outside the head of people using them, in relation to objective truth. If they worked, they would be science too.

How would we show another method is better than science and that science should be abandoned... With science!

Science! I'm off to have sex with science now, brb.

I'm talking about the truth of reality, of course. Science does not pretend to be able to tell you what you "should" do, other than by using predictive models to analyse the results of your actions.