/lit/ - Literature

Is Occam's Razor just a baseless postulate people use for convenience's sake or does it have actual foundation in philosophy/epistemology?

Philosophers erroneously claiming consciousness as their domain (solely due to the yet uncharted nature of its study as a science) is pitiful and almost analogous to the God of the Gaps arguments from christian apologists.

We have no evidence to suggest consciousness is anything but a product of interactions of natural matter inside the human cranium. That's it. Its just physical. Belief otherwise is almost always just wishful thinking on the part of philosophers.

Say what you will, yell about the problem of induction to me and whatever else, but in 60 years this will be as dead to philosophy as Aether and Forms

Is there anyone here who seriously believes that consciousness is a product of anything but physical actions and interaction of matter inside the human brain?

heideggerian antropology +religious taoism+Nietzschian aristocracism+Heraclitu's metaphysics is the best possible combination in my opinion
>tfw bioengineer
>tfw if someone gets to have access first to neuronal implants it wont be you humanistfags
>tfw my first action as a transhuman will be to hunt hipster intellectuals that didnt apply their ideas to change the human condition signifcantly and therefore wasted their time
>tfw you cant stop me, neuronal implants give me have the intelligence of 6 billion human beings
aaaah, my pipedreams; der steppenwolf had to think of suicide to sleep at night, I need to think of becoming a murderous omnipotent Jehova

Hard sci-fi or soft sci-fi, /lit/?