Which came first, the egg or the chicken?

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This is an old and difficult problem to solve.

There is a folk story about Zhuge Liang’s three qi and Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu asked Zhuge Liang a difficult question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Zhuge Liang replied: The chicken came first. Zhou Yu sneered and said where would the eggs come from without the chicken. Zhuge Liang asked: If the first egg was a hatching egg, where did the chicken come from? When Zhou Yu heard this, he was speechless. Qi came from the outside and blood moistened from the inside. He began to vomit blood in large mouths.

This folk tale is far-fetched, full of loopholes, and does not substantially help solve the "egg problem". Zhou Yu's question was certainly baffling. Zhuge Liang's rhetorical question was sophistry. But from this folk story, we can feel how enlightened the Buddha is, how deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and what the Three Represents are in the "Egg Fight".

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The "Chicken First" believe that eggs are born from chickens, so the chicken came first. The "egg first" believe that chickens hatch from eggs, so the eggs come first. This is a big logical trouble. Eggs are certainly born from chickens, but aren’t chickens hatched from eggs? It can be said that the chicken is right when talking about the chicken, and the egg is right when talking about the egg! Both sides are trapped in a vicious cycle. It's like running in a circle and you can't tell who is in front and who is behind.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Many masters and sages cannot answer this eternal question, but I can! Because I am much better than them. . .

I am a complete skeptic, and the first thing I thought of about this "egg battle" was a joke. The joke is this: The driver participated in the "Certificate 6 Driving Interview" and the examiner asked the driver: If there is a person and a cat in front of you (the kind of animal that has caused an uproar in major forums recently), would you hit the person or the cat? The driver answered without hesitation: Of course it was a cat collision! The examiner said: Wrong! You should brake immediately!

Brake the brakes immediately! This is the correct answer to the question! What the examiner gave the driver was a thinking trap! The problem is to break out of the trap! This way you have a wide range of choices. It's exactly: there is a bright future and a thousand villages!

The problem of the "egg battle" is also here. It is difficult to verify the earliest time when this question was raised, but what is certain is the background of raising this question, which was raised in an era when science was underdeveloped. Therefore, the first and most important thing to do is not how to answer this question, but to question the scientific nature of the question.

The theory of evolution tells us that any living thing is constantly evolving. So what is a chicken and what is an egg? How to define the chicken and the egg in terms of time? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? So which year does this chicken refer to, and which year does the egg refer to? Obviously the object of the question itself is unclear! From a mathematical point of view, the only way to discuss it is: Which came first, the chicken or the egg, in 2005? Which came first, the chicken or the egg, in 2004? Which came first, the chicken or the egg, in 2003? . . . And so on until the first year! And the answer isn’t necessarily the same every year. This means that "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" will have different answers depending on the time of discussion!

Of course, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" is mainly asked by first-year students, but first-year students do not have basic biological knowledge about such a question. Secondly, the person who first raised this question does not have basic biological common sense in his brain. The so-called chicken and egg in this question are static values, not a dynamic concept! The chicken and egg here are obviously the chicken and egg of the era of the person who first asked this question. Rather than a biological chicken and egg.

The second problem with this "egg debate" is that chickens are egg-laying animals, so chickens and eggs are the same creature, not two different creatures! Under such a premise, it makes no sense to discuss which came first, the chicken or the egg. This is like saying whether a person has a left hand or a right hand first.

The real twists and turns of the "Egg War" are not the above two. "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" evolved into "What came first, the chicken or the first egg?". It has been said above that living things evolve, and the objects of discussion, chickens and eggs, are themselves ambiguous. What is a chicken and what is an egg? Can you give a specific time?

Let’s break the casserole and ask the question: What I want is the first one and the first one, no specific time is needed.

But if it’s number one, then it’s not the chicken and the egg!

Ten thousand steps back, which came first, the first chicken or the first egg? There is a non-scientific element to this entanglement. People who think this way regard the emergence of living things as individuals! This is absolutely anti-scientific! Modern science tells us: living things appear in populations! In other words, there is no first chicken and first egg in the world! There is only the first flock of chickens and the first flock of eggs. The so-called first chicken and first egg are entanglements without modern scientific knowledge, and they are made out of nothing after being obsessed with it!

If living things appear as individuals. There is the first chicken, so how do chickens reproduce? There is the first egg, so how do eggs reproduce?

After talking so much, let me summarize: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This is an unscientific proposition. 2. Take one million steps back to discuss, chickens and eggs are the same organism, and organisms appear in populations. For a certain chicken in this population, the chicken comes first and then the egg. For another chicken, the egg comes first and then the chicken. For the entire population, it follows a probability distribution, that is, half of the entire population has The chicken comes first and then the egg, and for the other half, the egg comes first and then the chicken! In other words, for the chicken population, chickens and eggs are produced at the same time!

Doubt everything, but don’t doubt your ability to doubt!

This is the real answer to the question!