re: Occam's Razor
'"Heuristic ego preservation. "
I have no idea as to what you've applied above, but Occam's Razor has mainly to do with the "simplest solution, is best". Ask a question, think about the problem and there you go, the answer should be there or not as far.'
Yes, Occam’s Razor is a popular maxim, but care must be taken not to confuse rigorous simplicity with ease of mental grasp. Ego, one’s idea of one’s self, as distinct from one’s Self, is a set of finite baggage, including to some extent the epistemic quality of one’s concepts and the consensus mythology one participates in. Within the limited scope of this baggage there are many “simplest solutions†that could be challenged, if imagination were widened.