# Could Intelligent Life Flourish Against Cosmic Entropy by David Dalrymple > “Could the thermodynamic prophecy of an increasingly entropic universe be fulfilled by the cosmic flourishing of intelligent life?” > **— David Dalrymple**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [The Last Question — David Dalrymple](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27659) — David Dalrymple's question in the 2018 Annual Question collection, posed rather than asserted as a conclusion. The Edge response page is the publication record for this exact question. - **Local archival entry:** [[research/Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation]] (EDGE2018-085). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Entropy|Entropy]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Could the thermodynamic prophecy of an increasingly entropic universe be fulfilled by the cosmic flourishing of intelligent life?” — David Dalrymple, 2018 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-david-dalrymple-intelligent-life-flourish-against-cosmic ```