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NuclearPM | 12 days ago

That question isn’t as deep as you think it is.

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ASalazarMX|12 days ago

These kind of trick questions are variations of the tree falling when no one heard it. They aren't asking "did it generate soundwaves?", they're asking "if sound included perception, did it make a sound?". It's weird to ask questions like these outside quantum mechanics, where observation actually affects the result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest_an...

andai|12 days ago

If we accept the existence of that which cannot by definition be observed in any way... then is that not an infinitely large category?