“If a tree falls in a forest, but no one is there to to hear it, does it still make a sound?”
Yes. Next one.
“What does a one handed clap sound like”
Bart Simpson’s one handed clap
[from S02E06 Dead Putting Society]
“Can something exist without being perceived?”
Yes.
What other brain busters have you got for me?
What is so difficult or profound about any of these questions?
Just because you can’t perceive it, it doesn’t mean that something doesn’t exist.
Before Isaac Newton came up with the theory of gravity, it didn’t mean that the laws of gravity had no effect because no one had ‘perceived it before’
…well I guess that’s ‘conceived’ actually.
Or that the world wasn’t actually round because no one had seen it before or thought about it before. The world was still round, its just that no one knew it.
The tree falling in the forest. It’s just such a stupid question… I can barely bring myself to give it any credence.
If there’s a deaf person and a person that is not deaf standing in the forest at the same time as the tree falls, and the deaf person says… “I can’t hear anything”
First of all the other person would be like… “of course not, you’re deaf, are you only just figuring this out now？” and then would use his sign-language to convey that actually the tree just made a sound as it crashed to the ground, in a more polite manner.
If you don’t hear anything because you’re not in a position to do so… it’s not to say that it didn’t happen.
That is not how sound works as well, it doesn’t just exist in your mind…it’s the vibration of air particles….wait why am I explaining this to you… I’m sure whoever reading this is thinking….’yeah man you’re preaching to the choir here’
And for those philosophical hippies out there… me explaining the concept of physics is not going to change their minds… they’re hippies, they are sometimes immune to logic.
“oh but you’re not thinking about the philosophical nature of the question”
Its not philosophical its just stupid, and it has an easy answer, but you’re so caught up in trying to seem profound and spiritual that you won’t even given logic a chance.
……I really … really don’t like hippies.