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We are all familiar with this philosophical question. Question looking for an answer about a beginning to seemingly impossible to solve sequence. Which goes: ...<-egg<-chicken<-egg<-chicken<-egg<-... Who or what started it? Was a chicken first or was it an egg?
I'm don't know who invented it, but I suppose it was a clever attempts of visualization of infinity, or perhaps realization of human shortcomings that some world's mysteries will never be solved by humankind, and better left for the Omnipotent. Perhaps it is just a realization that in some cases we'll never find the Truth but we can always or only voice our Opinion.
Here is my stab at it, from humanist-individualist perspective:
The chicken and the egg are exactly same organism, the same individual, pictured in different stage of his/her life, as an egg and as a chicken. In other words there is no sequence ...<-egg<-chicken<-egg<-chicken<-egg<-... but only a sequence ...<-chicken<-chicken<-chicken<-.... However, when we talk about individual chicken's life, we can split it into two stages; "a chicken in an egg" stage and "a chicken after egg" stage. In this case, from this two defined stages, and singular life perspective, an egg (an egg stage) is always first. Although in the grand scheme of life, we have to remember that actually there is a chicken in this egg, they both exist at the same time, therefore they are both first.
Did I solve the puzzle?
What is your take on it?
Some history on this dilemma:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_or_the_egg
Famous people answering this question:
Aristotle: both the bird and egg must have always existed
Stephen Hawking: the egg was first
I'm don't know who invented it, but I suppose it was a clever attempts of visualization of infinity, or perhaps realization of human shortcomings that some world's mysteries will never be solved by humankind, and better left for the Omnipotent. Perhaps it is just a realization that in some cases we'll never find the Truth but we can always or only voice our Opinion.
Here is my stab at it, from humanist-individualist perspective:
The chicken and the egg are exactly same organism, the same individual, pictured in different stage of his/her life, as an egg and as a chicken. In other words there is no sequence ...<-egg<-chicken<-egg<-chicken<-egg<-... but only a sequence ...<-chicken<-chicken<-chicken<-.... However, when we talk about individual chicken's life, we can split it into two stages; "a chicken in an egg" stage and "a chicken after egg" stage. In this case, from this two defined stages, and singular life perspective, an egg (an egg stage) is always first. Although in the grand scheme of life, we have to remember that actually there is a chicken in this egg, they both exist at the same time, therefore they are both first.
Did I solve the puzzle?
What is your take on it?
Some history on this dilemma:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_or_the_egg
Famous people answering this question:
Aristotle: both the bird and egg must have always existed
Stephen Hawking: the egg was first
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