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vallor <
vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:55:33 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
>
> > vallor <
vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:
> >
> >> (I am but an egg.)
> >
> > Which of us came first?
> >
> > Can the chatbot can answer that?
>
> User
> which came first, the chicken? or the chicken egg? or...?
>
> ChatGPT
> The question "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" is often used as
> a metaphor for the dilemma of causality and it dates back to Ancient
> Greece. In the literal sense, it questions whether birds (such as the
> chicken) or their eggs were the first to exist.
>
> From a scientific perspective, in the realm of evolution, the egg came
> first. The concept here is that an animal similar to a chicken, but not
> quite a chicken, laid an egg that hatched into what we would now recognize
> as a chicken. This is due to small genetic mutations that occur over time.
>
> In this model, the "egg" -- or the mechanism through which offspring with
> variations and mutations are produced -- is fundamental to the process of
> evolution. This mutation would have occurred in the embryo inside the egg,
> so technically, the egg would have come before the chicken.
>
> This situation is a product of evolution, which functions through gradual
> changes over many generations. The first chicken would have been a product
> of non-chickens breeding and producing offspring with small mutations,
> until eventually, there was an animal we`d recognize as a chicken. So, in
> that sense, the egg came first, but it was laid by a bird that was not
> quite a chicken.
>
> This answer, of course, depends on the definition of a "chicken egg". If a
> "chicken egg" is an egg from which a chicken emerges, then the egg came
> first. If a "chicken egg" is an egg laid by a chicken, then the chicken
> came first.
>
> It`s important to remember that this is a simplified model of how
> evolution works and actual processes are complex, involving many genes and
> environmental factors.
>
Interesting.
> > Maybe the gravitational question too?
>
> One at a time, please. :)
>
> (Dinosaurs had eggs, so eggs came first.)
>
Some hold that we avians are descended from the dinosaurs.
I do hope that doesn`t mean that I`m one of the hemi-reptiloid
rulers of this sorry sphere; I`d hate think that I might be in part
responsible for the woes of poor old Spaceship Earth.
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My pet rock Gordon just is.
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