The chicken/egg problem is really a problem of a too narrow scope.
"What came first the chicken or the egg?"
The answer is obviously the egg as plenty of other species before chickens laid eggs.
The concept of an egg is far older than the concept of the chicken.
It's implicit that the question is about a chicken egg, specifically.
The thing is that species aren't that clear cut but exist on a spectrum. There is no first chicken as little as there is a first blue shade on a color gradient. Sure, you can draw the line somewhere but even when clearly defined as ancestor of all modern chickens, you can't really go down to the individual level.
It's specifically implied? :P
That is what I mean, the scooe of the question is too narrow.
"It's a thought experiment, there is no real answer, blah blah blah..."
The question is only deep among those who constrain themselves to what they believe the question asks, just widen the scope and you have the logical sollution.
The flaw of the question is assuming there is a clear dividing line between species. Evolutionary change is a continuous process. We only have dividing lines where we see differences in long dead ones in the fossil record, or we see enough differences in living ones. The question has no answer, only a long explanation of how that isn't how any of this works.
Then it just becomes a matter of word definitions.
I wonder if it has anything to do with alphabetical order... No, that's not it
Maybe try adding 🐣, 🐥, 🐤 and 🍗 to the array and see if it still has the correct order.
I wouldn't even be surprised if the Unicode consortium had put those in the correct order – as an Easter egg.
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Evolution turned out wildly different in an alternate universe where E comes before C except after I
Is this that AGI that I keep hearing about?
JS (run in chrome console just to be quick and dirty) agrees
The rooster came before the egg?
