Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
It doesn't matter.
Really, it doesn't matter.
Ancient philosophers (among others) not only wasted time wondering about the foul, they also wasted time with a classic irreducible logical problem. The answer has always depended on where you start (ab ovo - from the egg), and our answer was already determined the way we begin.
It's not that the question is unanswerable. Biologists have an answer: http://bit.ly/cyqtIJ and so do psychiatrists (why would you ask about the ovum? tell me about your mother).
It is answerable, but what our answer will be is already determined by where we begin - the ideas we assume (about chickens and eggs and the world).
The Truth is that we were born this way.
Get over it.
And ask: now what?
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