But the chicken could have motivation for moving from point a to point b, being in search of worms for example. Thus there is a "why" in the crossing even if the bird does not know what it is crossing. --- But birds do "know" (and I am not using "know" in the biblical sence here) what a road is, not in the linguistive or cognitive sence of knowing, but they do "know" it as an object or region in space the same way they "know" what a river is and don't try to walk across it.
Well the question does not say "what came first the chicken or the chicken egg" so without all of the stupid pondering the question must be anwsered egg not because of genetics but because animals that laied eggs existed before any chicken evolved.
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I have not idea why we am participating in this argument, you would think the smartest population in the world would have something better to do.
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But the chicken could have motivation for moving from point a to point b, being in search of worms for example. Thus there is a "why" in the crossing even if the bird does not know what it is crossing. --- But birds do "know" (and I am not using "know" in the biblical sence here) what a road is, not in the linguistive or cognitive sence of knowing, but they do "know" it as an object or region in space the same way they "know" what a river is and don't try to walk across it.
Well the question does not say "what came first the chicken or the chicken egg" so without all of the stupid pondering the question must be anwsered egg not because of genetics but because animals that laied eggs existed before any chicken evolved. --- I have not idea why we am participating in this argument, you would think the smartest population in the world would have something better to do.