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Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science

Dorion Sagan

Print publication date: 2013

Print ISBN-13: 9780816681358

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681358.001.0001

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Mousetrap

Mousetrap

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(p.120) Chapter 10 Mousetrap
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Cosmic Apprentice
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Dorion Sagan

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University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816681358.003.0011

Playing billiards with thoughts by Kurt and Mark Vonnegut, W.H. Auden, Stephen Jay Gould, and others on the purpose of life, the author presents a naturalistic, energetic solution, using the old game Mousetrap to illustrate. Cosmic flatulence, teleology, the Oracle of Delphi, and a humorous solution to the Fermi Paradox.

Keywords:   science, philosophy, Bataille, Whitehead, Derrida, Margulis, biopolitics, psychedelics, thermodynamics

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