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Like the ship of theseus though, at what point does it stop being a chicken, i.e. its parent. The progenitor is 'obviously' whatever preceded the chicken, but t
by Psyladine 7y ago
Like the ship of theseus though, at what point does it stop being a chicken, i.e. its parent. The progenitor is 'obviously' whatever preceded the chicken, but that's just it - is that itself the egg or the chicken-maker? There you are started down the tautological root back to what first first conceived both whatwouldbe-egg and whatwouldbe-chicken to come.
- LiquidSky 7y agoYou're misusing the "Ship of Theseus" concept. That has to do with individual identity. >at what point does it stop being a chicken, i.e. its parent. When it doesn't meet the genetic definition of a chicken, however you choose to define that. Once you have a definition, there will be a point in evolutionary history where such a creature arises. Anything before that is not a chicken, so therefore >is that itself the egg or the chicken-maker Once again, the answer is "the egg". A pre-chicken creature produced an egg that hatched the first chicken. Problem neatly solved.
- SiempreViernes 7y agoBut what if ”chicken” is a singelton?
- mannykannot 7y agoIf that were so, everything about the issue would be different, but it is not so.