Chicken or the Egg?
The answer is in the eye of the observer and here's my observation:
Assuming that the chicken and the egg are the same 'being' and the problem is defined recursively that the egg must be laid by the chicken which becomes the chicken who laid the egg. As an example this is what happens:
The Chicken lays the egg. The egg hatches and becomes the chicken who then travels back in time and lays the egg then continues with it's life. Infinitely this occurs in a time paradox whereby the chicken and the egg have always existed and one did not come before the other.
But then you have the problem: For an egg to hatch then the chicken must be fertilized by a rooster so in actual fact before the chicken can lay the egg that becomes the chicken then a rooster must exist. If the rooster exists outside of the time-space continuum paradox then we can deduce that the question shouldn't be just simply chicken/egg it must be defined to incorporate the rooster!
In which case the rooster exists at a time temporally before the chicken and the egg.
Because the chicken and the egg exist in an infinite time paradox then you need to expand your understanding of time and see that parallel time reference points and two unique universes converge to a singular point - the infinite looping time universe of the chicken and egg collides with the straight uniform universe of the rooster. So temporally the rooster came first but in terms of time in length it came last as it doesn't fit into the infinite universe that the chicken and egg do and dies a short time after getting laid by the chicken.
As observers we belong to the uniform universe where we see the rooster, we see the chicken and we see the egg.
Because we are unable to comprehend the infinite universe that paradoxically exists 'because it can' we can either spend our temporal time of life pondering the question or we can destroy the marvelous mystery and simply crush the egg when the chicken lays it and destroy the infinite universe because the chicken can no longer exist and there is no chicken to lay the egg we break the notion that this universe of infinity exists and forget all about the answer we found.
This of course will result in a completely new paradox where if we crush the egg then the chicken no longer exists to lay the egg and we are no longer able to observe the egg being crushed because it no longer exists so we don't crush it. At this point the universe will implode and everything will no longer be.
In short the answer to the chicken and egg can't be logically solved without destroying the universe so do not attempt it!
Agree or not to agree that is the question. Can you dig it?




Jul27 '07
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i'm really amazed at the number of times you misspelled rooster (all of them).
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/me is amazed by the number of times you read it wrong :)
Jul27 '07
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Eggs came before chickens were ever thought of....End of Universe, logic man.
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get sahlgoode in here and we got ourselves a hat trick, yo.
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The rooster came first and pissed off the hen, then came the egg.
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A circle has no beginning.
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But the center grass hopper.