Ockham’s Razor, Desire, & Conspiracy Logic

Given the modern perspective that reason is a result of the total process of human existence, and that, as such, it is tied to emotion to and the hormonal changes which influence (or possibly are) much of our behavior, it makes more sense to think of Ockham’s statement that “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity” as a psychological observation rather than as a maxim governing thought and/or the universe. In this formulation, rather than “the simplest hypothesis (or the hypothesis which yields the simplest result) is most likely the correct one”, we might say that the simplest answer is sometimes more cognitively attractive.

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