Contemplating the end of the world, math, mystery and other things

September 6, 2010, 11:00 am by Scientific American: Mind and Brain

I suffer from eschatological obsession. That is, I spend lots of time brooding about ends. So the cover of the September Scientific American --which reads simply "the end."--made me all shivery, like when I hear the spooky sitar opening of The Doors' apocalyptic rock poem "The End." (I'm never more Freudian than when I hear Morrison's Oedipal yowl.) [More] Doors - Rock music - Oedipus complex - Math - September Scientific American

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