- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
-
Introduction Condensed—the Questing Spirit -
Chapter 1 The Human Is More Than Human -
Chapter 2 Bataille’s Sunand the Ethical Abyss -
Chapter 3 The Post-Man Already Always Rings Twice -
Chapter 4 Stardust Memories -
Chapter 5 A Quick History of Sex -
Chapter 6 Who Is I ? -
Chapter 7 Of Whales and Aliens -
Chapter 8 Thermosemiosis -
Chapter 9 Life Gave Earth the Blues -
Chapter 10 Mousetrap -
Chapter 11 Priests of the Modern Age -
Chapter 12 Metametazoa -
Chapter13 Kermitronics -
Chapter 14 On Doyle on Drugs - Conclusion Floating in to Spinoza’s Ocean
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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Mousetrap
Mousetrap
- Chapter:
- (p.120) Chapter 10 Mousetrap
- Source:
- Cosmic Apprentice
- Author(s):
Dorion Sagan
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
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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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
-
Introduction Condensed—the Questing Spirit -
Chapter 1 The Human Is More Than Human -
Chapter 2 Bataille’s Sunand the Ethical Abyss -
Chapter 3 The Post-Man Already Always Rings Twice -
Chapter 4 Stardust Memories -
Chapter 5 A Quick History of Sex -
Chapter 6 Who Is I ? -
Chapter 7 Of Whales and Aliens -
Chapter 8 Thermosemiosis -
Chapter 9 Life Gave Earth the Blues -
Chapter 10 Mousetrap -
Chapter 11 Priests of the Modern Age -
Chapter 12 Metametazoa -
Chapter13 Kermitronics -
Chapter 14 On Doyle on Drugs - Conclusion Floating in to Spinoza’s Ocean
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- [UNTITLED]