If a tree falls in a forest, and there is nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound?
"If a tree falls in a forest, and
there is nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound?"
Of course it fucking does you plonker.
If you define sound as wavelike
movement of air within a certain range of frequencies, then of course
the movement exists whether there is an observer or not.
(You could define sound as perception
of audio waves by a human being, and in that case the sound does
not exist if nobody is there to percieve the air movement. But
the philosophers I heard talking about this did not do that simple
thing of defining what they meant by sound. They just played with
words. A History Of Ideas is a BBC Radio podcast)
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