if a tree falls in the wood's and no-one is around to hear it does it still make a sound?

Answer 1

Yes, you just don't hear it.

Answer 2

I'm a gullible, sincere sort of person, so I'll have to answer in my most gullible, sincere, philosophical mindset:

The sound is real so far as people are not absolutely not there--for example so long as there are people in the same world, meaning that conceivably they might be effected by that action.

For example, a bird being startled, decides to go in a different direction. The bird drops seeds it happened to ingest, which grow into a plum tree in someone's yard. Maybe if the tree hadn't fallen the plum tree wouldn't have grown, or grown in the same place. So that's a kind of hearing, by way of cause and effect.

But you'd have to be a very sensitive person to notice, or trust that there was a cause beyond the human. Since noticing is usually part of hearing, we can say that the falling tree goes mostly unheard.

But metaphorically, all the "falling trees" or subtle changes in the world collectively have a great effect, especially on sensitive people. Sometimes it is easier to imagine the sound of the tree falling with no one around than to listen to the deafening crunch of the tree that falls right in front of you. Perhaps imagination is a kind of sense, like hearing, only of the trees with no one around.

Also, all of this is dependent on the world being real. If the world were simulated, only immediate sense data would matter, and we wouldn't have to make sense of it, or create a story. Yet by creating stories we lend a certain reality to the world, whether or not it is fundamentally synthetic.

Answer 3

Actually NO. Sounds only occurs when vibrations hit the eardrum, otherwise they are just vibrations. If no one is around to hear a sound, no sound is made, just vibrations.

Answer 4

Not that one again. Been asked a thousand times here, in a thousand ways.

Only, I, the Auricle can hear it.

Answer 5

Yes.

Answer 6

I'd like to ask the squirrels living in the tree b4 I answer this one ....

Answer 7

of course it makes a sound, there is just no one there to hear it!

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

DUH!