To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world
Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.
Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.
When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.