I have really getting into the Zen Bhuddism philosophy as of late and wondered!. Personally I think it makes one hell of a noise!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Position:Home>Philosophy> If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around to hear it does it makeQuestion: If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around to hear it does it make a sound!? I have really getting into the Zen Bhuddism philosophy as of late and wondered!. Personally I think it makes one hell of a noise!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hi Robert, I personally agree with you and it would Shake the ground too My Friend!.!. Your Friend, poppy1Www@QuestionHome@Com The movement of a tree moves air molecules!. If these patterns reach a listening ear, "sound" is noted!. The vibrations exist; it requires a listening ear for "sound!." If a man makes a comment in the forest, and no woman is there to hear it, is he still wrong!? References: "Alcatraz and the Evil Librarians," Brandon Sanderson, "The Path to Immortality," Mark Prophet, "Going beyond the Pairs," Dennis McCort!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes!. Noise is the series of rarefactions and compressions caused by the kinetic vibration of particles!. Thus when the tree falls, sound is created!. The issue of whether someone heard it is totally different; if someone was in the radius, the sound created would have been heard!. Alternatively, if no "sentient life-being" (e!.g!. a human) was present, then the sound was not heard!.!. Nevertheless sound was created!. This is where you are confused; hearing a sound does not constitute its existence!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes!. Its funny you should say "it makes a really loud noise" because this contradicts your premise!. In the 21st century we now except w/ impunity scientific postulates that we have no capacity to "hear"!. Look at astromomy, dating back to the 16th c!. Copernicus, Galileo!. Besides, there are (still) birds and bugs that hear the tree fall!.Www@QuestionHome@Com People mistake this question as a scientific one!. It's not!. It's really an epistemological question!. It's the same as asking, "If I'm not looking at that table, does it still exist!?" Since the sound and sight of the table occur only in your brain, (the source of all human experience) it might be right to say that it doesn't, from a philosophical point of view!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes!. The tree falling physically makes sound waves occur, thus making sound!. This happens whether someone hears it or not!. If a rock falls on a person and kills him and nobody sees it happen, is he still dead!? Yes!. The universe (god whatever) exists whether you can observe it or not - is usually what the message is when a religion asks this type of question!.!.!.!. Hope this kinda helped!Www@QuestionHome@Com No!. Sound is your brains interpretation of pressure waves in the air, which trigger vibrations in your ear which are converted into bio-electric signals, finally processed into sound by your brain!. It shakes the ground and causes vibrations to propagate in the air!.Www@QuestionHome@Com That depends on your point of view!. I think that even if you can't see, hear, or feel something that doesn't mean it doesn't exist!. so looking at it that way, i say ya even if no one is around to hear it a falling tree is a falling tree and sure sounds like one!Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes!. I think it makes a big noise!. It's extremely self-centered and selfish to think that a human would have to be around for the noise to be considered existent!. Huh, typical!.Www@QuestionHome@Com No!. Sound is made by a part of your ear and is interpreted by your brain!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yea!. The tree still wants the same attention; dont hurt thier feelings by saying it doesnt make a sound! Does a fire cackle when thiers no1 around!?Www@QuestionHome@Com a tree doesn't need an audience to make itself heard it is not vain it makes sound whether someone is there to hear or notWww@QuestionHome@Com Yes, just because no one heard it doesn't mean it didn't make sound when it fell!.Www@QuestionHome@Com If a man is in the forest and there isn't a woman near to hear him - is he still wrong!? :-)Www@QuestionHome@Com yup you'll know it happend --- see this thing called mother nature----- she will tell everyone--- and they will know the color as well and who they slept with ----Www@QuestionHome@Com yes!. The laws of physics apply to nature, regarless of human presence!.Www@QuestionHome@Com What does it matter!?!?!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com The world may never know, but I have heard trees fall from a distance, when technically!.!.!. noone is around!.Www@QuestionHome@Com One hell of a noise indeed!. Noise is noise, whether you hear it or not!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes, animals can still hear it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes it has to make a sound!.I'm sure the animals out there hear it!.lolWww@QuestionHome@Com noone there to care about that!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com yessssssWww@QuestionHome@Com yesWww@QuestionHome@Com I think so too, can I have it!?Www@QuestionHome@Com |