Ego-- harmful delusion or pragmatic necessity?

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I guess you could call it an internal science. You may learn things that you consider true and helpful about yourself which can then be somehow applied in a positive way. The mistake people often make is to attribute external things in the real world to this introspection, as if they have learned something about ghosts or something.

But for it to be general science, if you cannot offer some way for others to validate your findings, then I don't see how it is. But if you do achieve something, you can study how and why it happened, thus leading to science.

Again, stuff about your own brain, viewed through the filter if your brain may offer "internal truths" but I see science as dealing with objective truth.

So I guess it comes down to how you define science exactly. I tend to think that if you're using at least some logical methodology, then it's science-esque even if it's not hard science. So if you're doing introspection properly, I could accept it as science-esque.

Not that it matters what I think, I'd have to adjust my answers based on hard definitions of science, or the ones being used in whatever conversation.