Comment on Chicken vs Egg

• PapaStevesy@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Incorrect, a “chicken’s egg” would be an egg in the possession of a chicken, which would be the egg a chicken lays. The “first chicken” did not hatch out of an egg laid by a chicken because they didn’t exist.

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  • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’re right. I just realized that I typed the opposite of what I meant. And then in another comment said what you did thinking I was defending my og opinion. I’m all over the place this morning.

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• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Amy is a chicken. Amy lays an egg. Brenda is a chicken. Brenda hatched from the egg Amy laid. The egg in question is clearly a chicken’s egg, but is it Amy’s egg, or Brenda’s egg?

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  • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It was Amy’s egg that Brenda inherited, so now it’s Brenda’s egg. So the OG egg was Amy’s.

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So, it doesn’t become a Chicken’s egg until Brenda has come into existence. Brenda being the chicken.

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      • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Right and wrong. It was a chicken’s egg when Amy laid it, but it was a chicken egg when Brenda was hatched. So yes, the chicken has to exist for the first chicken’s egg, but the first chicken hatched from a chicken egg, that was not a chicken’s egg.

        To clarify, I’m assuming that in this case Amy was the first evolution of the chicken, therefore she laid the first chicken’s egg that was the second chicken egg, bevause her parents weren’t chickens, so what was laid wasn’t a chicken’s egg until Amy hatched. Schrodinger’s egg if you will.

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