A Conversation for Egg

Which came first

Post 1

Researcher 38090

The chicken or the egg. Surely the easiest question ever asked by a philosopher.


Which came first

Post 2

Wig

Obvious. The Egg. Otherwise, what did dinosaurs come out of?


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Post 3

Hedgehog

Nice one - a variation of "Why did the Dinosaur cross the road? Because chickens hadn't been invented yet!"

At least we've been spared "Miss Milly's Roasted Velocoraptor".


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Post 4

Researcher 49186

The question is not which came first, rather, "Is the egg a means for a chicken to make another chicken? Or is a chicken the means for an egg to make another egg".
cf. Richard Dawkins, Selfish Gene.


Which came first

Post 5

Researcher 38090

Demonstrating Dawkins as virus. That snipet you read attached itself to you with an instruction to reproduce it elsewhere.


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