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Why did the rational chicken cross the road?[edit]
- To avoid multiplying entities beyond what is necessary.
- To demonstrate its free will, unfettered by any chicken-imposed notions of religious morality.
- To verify through empirical experience that the other side was cognitively meaningful.
- To join a change in paradigms.
- Because it decided to exist.
- "Wait - how do we actually know that the chicken crossed the road?"
- To change its frame of reference.
- To avoid disturbing the crickets.
- To get out of an infinite recursion.
- Because the finite gain and infinite loss of this side was negligible when compared to the infinite gain and finite loss of the other side.
- Because in the end it doesn't matter.