"A tree fell in the forest and there was not another living being there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?"
No, that's a fact, sound is only created by the waves that hit our ears. I learned that in philopsopy first year. However, do we exist is a wider question  x |
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"A tree fell in the forest and there was not another living being there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?
No, that's a fact, sound is only created by the waves that hit our ears. I learned that in philopsopy first year. However, do we exist is a wider question x "
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"A tree fell in the forest and there was not another living being there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?
No, that's a fact, sound is only created by the waves that hit our ears. I learned that in philopsopy first year. However, do we exist is a wider question x "
Insects and birds would have heard it. |
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"A tree fell in the forest and there was not another living being there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?
No, that's a fact, sound is only created by the waves that hit our ears. I learned that in philopsopy first year. However, do we exist is a wider question x
Insects and birds would have heard it."
The question was if there was no living being to hear it |
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"A tree fell in the forest and there was not another living being there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?
No, that's a fact, sound is only created by the waves that hit our ears. I learned that in philopsopy first year. However, do we exist is a wider question x
Insects and birds would have heard it.
The question was if there was no living being to hear it "
then there would be no trees too surely |
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"A tree fell in the forest and there was not another living being there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?
No, that's a fact, sound is only created by the waves that hit our ears. I learned that in philopsopy first year. However, do we exist is a wider question x
Insects and birds would have heard it.
The question was if there was no living being to hear it
then there would be no trees too surely"
Good point, can other trees hear? |
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"A tree fell in the forest and there was not another living being there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?
No, that's a fact, sound is only created by the waves that hit our ears. I learned that in philopsopy first year. However, do we exist is a wider question x
Insects and birds would have heard it.
The question was if there was no living being to hear it
then there would be no trees too surely
Good point, can other trees hear? "
What if I left a tape recorder in the forest? That would record the sound of it falling but no ears around to hear it |
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"More importantly, when you shut the fridge door, does the light really go off? 
I feel video proof is required
get in the fridge!"
The light in our fridge went off ages ago and never came back on. I think it objected when we changed our cheesecake diet to a vegetable based one. |
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By *adetMan
over a year ago
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Surely there would still be a sound wave tho
There are still light waves in a room when the light is on, even if there's nobody in the room
I shall have to Google this at a more sociable hour  |
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"A tree fell in the forest and there was not another living being there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?
No, that's a fact, sound is only created by the waves that hit our ears. I learned that in philopsopy first year. However, do we exist is a wider question x
Insects and birds would have heard it.
The question was if there was no living being to hear it
then there would be no trees too surely
Good point, can other trees hear?
What if I left a tape recorder in the forest? That would record the sound of it falling but no ears around to hear it "
True, can't argue with that, but it's still capturing sound waves. If nothing around like that then there would definitely be no noise. Damn, you caught me out |
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"A tree fell in the forest and there was not another living being there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?
No, that's a fact, sound is only created by the waves that hit our ears. I learned that in philopsopy first year. However, do we exist is a wider question x
Insects and birds would have heard it.
The question was if there was no living being to hear it
then there would be no trees too surely
Good point, can other trees hear?
What if I left a tape recorder in the forest? That would record the sound of it falling but no ears around to hear it "
This actually sounds like a good point. What if that recorder live streamed the event to people on the other side of the world? Would those ears count even though they were thousands of miles away and the ‘sound’ they heard would be a digitised rendition and not the actual sound at all... |
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"Surely there would still be a sound wave tho
There are still light waves in a room when the light is on, even if there's nobody in the room
I shall have to Google this at a more sociable hour "
yeah but sound waves are just vibrations until an ear picks them up and interprets them as sound |
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By *adetMan
over a year ago
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"Surely there would still be a sound wave tho
There are still light waves in a room when the light is on, even if there's nobody in the room
I shall have to Google this at a more sociable hour
yeah but sound waves are just vibrations until an ear picks them up and interprets them as sound"
But don't they still exist even if no ear perceives them? |
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"Surely there would still be a sound wave tho
There are still light waves in a room when the light is on, even if there's nobody in the room
I shall have to Google this at a more sociable hour
yeah but sound waves are just vibrations until an ear picks them up and interprets them as sound
But don't they still exist even if no ear perceives them?"
No x |
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By *adetMan
over a year ago
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"Surely there would still be a sound wave tho
There are still light waves in a room when the light is on, even if there's nobody in the room
I shall have to Google this at a more sociable hour
yeah but sound waves are just vibrations until an ear picks them up and interprets them as sound
But don't they still exist even if no ear perceives them?
No x "
Wouldn't sound recording instruments pick up sound waves? |
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I had a similar theoretical debate with someone years ago. There is no way to know if any 2 people see the universe in the same way.
They can look at an object, a tree, associate the same word or colour to it, brown, but there is no way to know if we are actually seeing the same shape and colour as each other |
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"A tree fell in the forest and there was not another living being there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?
No, that's a fact, sound is only created by the waves that hit our ears. I learned that in philopsopy first year. However, do we exist is a wider question x "
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The waves exist, therefore it makes a sound. Whether or not a human hears it is irrelevant. |
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"I had a similar theoretical debate with someone years ago. There is no way to know if any 2 people see the universe in the same way.
They can look at an object, a tree, associate the same word or colour to it, brown, but there is no way to know if we are actually seeing the same shape and colour as each other "
I often think the same thing about colours. Do you see red the same as I do? |
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"Surely there would still be a sound wave tho
There are still light waves in a room when the light is on, even if there's nobody in the room
I shall have to Google this at a more sociable hour
yeah but sound waves are just vibrations until an ear picks them up and interprets them as sound
But don't they still exist even if no ear perceives them?
No x
Wouldn't sound recording instruments pick up sound waves?"
It would still take ears to hear it |
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"A tree fell in the forest and there was not another living being there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?
No, that's a fact, sound is only created by the waves that hit our ears. I learned that in philopsopy first year. However, do we exist is a wider question x #
The waves exist, therefore it makes a sound. Whether or not a human hears it is irrelevant."
The waves with interaction with ears creates the sound. Without ears there is no sound |
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"Surely there would still be a sound wave tho
There are still light waves in a room when the light is on, even if there's nobody in the room
I shall have to Google this at a more sociable hour
yeah but sound waves are just vibrations until an ear picks them up and interprets them as sound
But don't they still exist even if no ear perceives them?
No x
Wouldn't sound recording instruments pick up sound waves?
It would still take ears to hear it "
Yes. its simply air currents until the air currents rattle an eardrum then we call it sound |
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"A tree fell in the forest and there was not another living being there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?
No, that's a fact, sound is only created by the waves that hit our ears. I learned that in philopsopy first year. However, do we exist is a wider question x
Insects and birds would have heard it.
The question was if there was no living being to hear it "
Oh right, I missed that.
I count trees as living beings though, I believe that to an extent they are sentient. |
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"Surely there would still be a sound wave tho
There are still light waves in a room when the light is on, even if there's nobody in the room
I shall have to Google this at a more sociable hour
yeah but sound waves are just vibrations until an ear picks them up and interprets them as sound
But don't they still exist even if no ear perceives them?
No x
Wouldn't sound recording instruments pick up sound waves?
It would still take ears to hear it "
Does earthquake equipment measure sound waves and represent them as waves on paper? |
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"I had a similar theoretical debate with someone years ago. There is no way to know if any 2 people see the universe in the same way.
They can look at an object, a tree, associate the same word or colour to it, brown, but there is no way to know if we are actually seeing the same shape and colour as each other
I often think the same thing about colours. Do you see red the same as I do?"
No, many people see orange and brown completely differently |
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"Surely there would still be a sound wave tho
There are still light waves in a room when the light is on, even if there's nobody in the room
I shall have to Google this at a more sociable hour
yeah but sound waves are just vibrations until an ear picks them up and interprets them as sound
But don't they still exist even if no ear perceives them?
No x
Wouldn't sound recording instruments pick up sound waves?
It would still take ears to hear it
Does earthquake equipment measure sound waves and represent them as waves on paper? "
Yes but that's different from sound |
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By *ockforplay66Man
over a year ago
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"Surely there would still be a sound wave tho
There are still light waves in a room when the light is on, even if there's nobody in the room
I shall have to Google this at a more sociable hour
yeah but sound waves are just vibrations until an ear picks them up and interprets them as sound
But don't they still exist even if no ear perceives them?"
Forget philosophy, simple physics dictates that a sound wave, which is just another form of energy transmission, will occur regardless of whether there is anyone there or not. The only think that would prevent sound waves from traveling is a vacuum. If that were the case, any icing creature capable of audio perception would be dead from lack of atmosphere |
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"Surely there would still be a sound wave tho
There are still light waves in a room when the light is on, even if there's nobody in the room
I shall have to Google this at a more sociable hour
yeah but sound waves are just vibrations until an ear picks them up and interprets them as sound
But don't they still exist even if no ear perceives them?
No x
Wouldn't sound recording instruments pick up sound waves?
It would still take ears to hear it
Does earthquake equipment measure sound waves and represent them as waves on paper? "
thats seismic waves similar but diffrent |
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"I had a similar theoretical debate with someone years ago. There is no way to know if any 2 people see the universe in the same way.
They can look at an object, a tree, associate the same word or colour to it, brown, but there is no way to know if we are actually seeing the same shape and colour as each other
I often think the same thing about colours. Do you see red the same as I do?
No, many people see orange and brown completely differently "
As an archaeologist we were not allowed to record orange as a colour since it's not on the official Munsell Colour Chart |
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"Surely there would still be a sound wave tho
There are still light waves in a room when the light is on, even if there's nobody in the room
I shall have to Google this at a more sociable hour
yeah but sound waves are just vibrations until an ear picks them up and interprets them as sound
But don't they still exist even if no ear perceives them?
Forget philosophy, simple physics dictates that a sound wave, which is just another form of energy transmission, will occur regardless of whether there is anyone there or not. The only think that would prevent sound waves from traveling is a vacuum. If that were the case, any icing creature capable of audio perception would be dead from lack of atmosphere "
I understand physics but unless there is a receptor to teanslate those waves into sound then there is no sound |
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"I had a similar theoretical debate with someone years ago. There is no way to know if any 2 people see the universe in the same way.
They can look at an object, a tree, associate the same word or colour to it, brown, but there is no way to know if we are actually seeing the same shape and colour as each other
I often think the same thing about colours. Do you see red the same as I do?
No, many people see orange and brown completely differently
As an archaeologist we were not allowed to record orange as a colour since it's not on the official Munsell Colour Chart "
That's really interesting, I guess you had varieties of the shade? |
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"I had a similar theoretical debate with someone years ago. There is no way to know if any 2 people see the universe in the same way.
They can look at an object, a tree, associate the same word or colour to it, brown, but there is no way to know if we are actually seeing the same shape and colour as each other
I often think the same thing about colours. Do you see red the same as I do?
No, many people see orange and brown completely differently
As an archaeologist we were not allowed to record orange as a colour since it's not on the official Munsell Colour Chart
That's really interesting, I guess you had varieties of the shade? "
Petty much. We had to describe it as reddy brown or yellow depending on the shade
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"I had a similar theoretical debate with someone years ago. There is no way to know if any 2 people see the universe in the same way.
They can look at an object, a tree, associate the same word or colour to it, brown, but there is no way to know if we are actually seeing the same shape and colour as each other
I often think the same thing about colours. Do you see red the same as I do?"
I’d say no. The amount of discussions I have with people who see a different colour than me of an object in front of us. Who is seeing the correct colour ? |
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"I had a similar theoretical debate with someone years ago. There is no way to know if any 2 people see the universe in the same way.
They can look at an object, a tree, associate the same word or colour to it, brown, but there is no way to know if we are actually seeing the same shape and colour as each other
I often think the same thing about colours. Do you see red the same as I do?
No, many people see orange and brown completely differently
As an archaeologist we were not allowed to record orange as a colour since it's not on the official Munsell Colour Chart
That's really interesting, I guess you had varieties of the shade?
Petty much. We had to describe it as reddy brown or yellow depending on the shade
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Yep, can totally understand that. Archaeology totally fascinates me, a great job. |
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"I had a similar theoretical debate with someone years ago. There is no way to know if any 2 people see the universe in the same way.
They can look at an object, a tree, associate the same word or colour to it, brown, but there is no way to know if we are actually seeing the same shape and colour as each other
I often think the same thing about colours. Do you see red the same as I do?
I’d say no. The amount of discussions I have with people who see a different colour than me of an object in front of us. Who is seeing the correct colour ? "
If i could transplant my consciousness into someone elses brain, its possible I would see the colours as they see them, what my brain conjures up as red when given the signal from someone elses brain, might be what my conciousness registers as blue, like looking at a photographic negative. Its even possible i would see colours that i have never experienced. |
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If other life forms in other places in the galaxy were able to detect the tree falling, does it mean that it did? We will need to find all other life forms and investigate their technologies and any senses. |
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It only makes a sound if there is something to receive the moving air molecules and convert said air molecules into electrical charges, which are then interpreted by whatever receives them. Brain, diaphragm in a microphone etc.
The other answer would be yes it does, but that is simply because we have learned that it would make a sound.
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