Chicken or eggs first, of course there is an answer

A chicken or an egg is an ambiguous question. In fact, there is a clear answer. First, the world view, and then the definition.

This boring question has a strong sense of sophistry in ancient Greek philosophy. I remember that when I took the Chinese reading test, I asked you what you thought ......, I think what is my personal opinion, but if I answer the question truthfully, the teacher will make a mistake, so the subline of the question is to ask the author to think ......, But how can the author really know what the real question is. For this question, let's first look at the author's intention.

The world has always been like this. Now, and in the future, so are species. So the chicken, egg, and egg are both egg and egg. This is the basis of sophistry. It is hard to choose between chicken and eggs. However, the question is incorrect because it is not necessarily either of the two. For example, the smallest positive integer is 1 and the smallest non-negative integer is 0. Can you tell me the smallest integer? The number axis is infinite, there is no minimum, there is no maximum, there is no start, there is no end, there is no beginning and end in the infinite. For example, which is the most Eastern? The earth is round, and the cycle starts again. There is only the East but not the East. In the cycle, find the beginning and the end.

But this is not how we see the world. The world is the beginning, and species are the origin. After ancient Greece, the West believed in Christianity. If you believed in the founding century, the first chicken or the first egg would be a theology problem, which may belong to the school of economics. Humans first have Adam and then Eve before they have a fetus. You may have a chicken before you have an egg. Then, you can create a chicken that is being hatched, or the first egg does not need to be hatched. Because God is omnipotent, there are many possibilities. what is the answer? Only God knows.

If we do not believe in religion, or are not an ignorant, or believe in religion, we believe that "God is not a hacker, pulling all the ropes and manipulating all things. A real movie master is manipulating his puppets from the outside, so he is the external reason for these puppets to make various actions '. But God does not dominate the world in this way. God dominates the world through the laws of nature. Therefore, God (or nature) is the internal cause of everything '. (From the Sophie's world) ", that is, to review this question on the premise of accepting evolution. (I have a colleague who is a devout priest. I once asked him how he saw Darwin. He said that God had set things for a long time and the world was set to run according to set. He is very grateful for his patience, because this problem is not polite)

In terms of evolution, there are chickens or eggs first. You can say with certainty that there are eggs first. Because birds evolved from dinosaurs, they first had dinosaur eggs before they had birds. The problem may be complicated if you have chicken or eggs first. The evolution has been accumulated by many generations over a long period of time. Since the problem is complicated, the model can be simplified. The chicken is made up of the original chicken. According to Wikipedia, both the original chicken and the chicken are inspecies. The ancestor of a chicken may be a zombie. The pattern is as follows: an egg is generated in a certain period of time, and an egg is hatched. In this simplified process, the question is, is this egg an egg or an egg?

So the question is how to define eggs. If you set the egg to give birth to a chicken, according to this definition, this egg is not an egg. If you set an egg to be an egg that can hatch a chicken (not to mention whether the egg we eat is a non-fertilized egg or not), the egg is an egg.

Determine whether the egg is an egg. It is best not to chew on it again, and identify it based on DNA in a more scientific way. This egg has the same DNA as the hatched chicken and is in different stages of the same life. It is because of the genetic variation of this egg that it is different from the original one that can evolve into a chicken. From the DNA point of view, this egg is an egg, not an egg. Restore a simplified model to a long evolutionary process. Each variation, the egg DNA is different from that of the parents, and consistent with that of the new individual, no matter which one you define is the first chicken, it is the first egg, and each change starts from the egg.

Whether you have a chicken or an egg first lies in your world view, and then in your definition. If I want to answer the question, I 'd like to say it first.

In Beijing, I saw Dr. Xu's theory about the eggs at the savage reading club. I thought about this question and remember it.