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It doesn't. The chicken doesn't know it's a road
by is_true 2y ago
It doesn't. The chicken doesn't know it's a road
- batch12 2y agoA road is not a road if a chicken doesn't know what a road is? That's an interesting rabbit hole to go down.
- swores 2y agoI assume they're trying to make a joke, as it's too obviously illogical if not. (Admittedly it also seems fairly obviously not funny to me, but that's more subjective than believing that an animal can't "do" anything that it doesn't have a conscious understanding of.)
- pelagicAustral 2y agoOr, if a chicken crosses a road and nobody is looking, did the chicken crossed the road?
- batch12 2y agoYes, I'd say so since the road doesn't have to be perceived by a human to be a road. Does it make a sound?
- randomdata 2y agoIf a road has not been perceived by a human, what created it?
- batch12 2y agoI meant at the time of the alleged chicken crossing
- maxwell 2y agoIn practice, the chickens I see along the sides of roads clearly know what roads are. And don't cross them.
- randomdata 2y agoWhen we had cattle the cow paths showed up in the pasture, even where there was no obvious destination (for the shortest route to explain it). Legend has it that cattle form these paths along magnetic lines. Anyway, the veracity of that legend doesn't matter, but it is here merely to illustrate the idea that perhaps we subconsciously build our roads on lines that chickens won't cross, rather than them being aware of the road?
- is_true 2y agoI spent an afternoon in a chicken farm while the owners were installing a synthetic grass football field and the chicken that were free just avoided that grass. We didn't know why, besides the fact that it didn't have any bugs in it it looked very similar to the rest of the grass