/lit/ - Literature

>>11202490
>descartes
actually a good suggestion.

i kind of feel like a descartes-inspired character in neo-tokyo wouldn be more likely to be an antagonist or heartless CEO:

>In setting up some superhuman and non-biological thing as the exemplar of mental substance, Descartes produces a theory that, to its cost, discerns minds in no non-human animals at all. (The account shocked some of his readers by implying that their household pets were mere unthinking automata.)

or, maybe the most descartes-inspired character could be ironically surprised to find out that he was just another android like the others in the end, however much he wanted to avoid this.

a cyberpunk world is still driven by technological and economic forces, it's not full-blown science fiction, but it's a change from usual marxist guys. so rationalist philosophers are probably in that sweet spot. so, that's a good suggestion, thanks anon.