Dismantle a Sound

If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound even if no one is there to hear it?

Is sound something that only creatures with the function and ability to recognize a sound vibration pick up on? I think the tree would make some sort of vibration, but without the ear to pick up on the sound, there is no sound, if that makes sense.

Or, to maybe express it differently, we could never know for sure because the observer changes everything. Since humans have the ability to hear, we could never know (or not know) if a sound is (or isnt) being made without our presence. If you put a tape recorder in the forest, for instance, if it were to pick up a sound, is it only picking up the sound because we have the ability to hear and observe that sound as humans, not because an actual sound was made? Trees may have no need whatsoever for sound. I do not know.

Is there an objective reality out there in the ether, one that does not shift depending upon the observer, one Truth? The Universe, or some sort of reality does exist out there, but it is not at all as we perceive it, and what we do perceive is a reality fitted to our very human ears, eyes, and other sensory organs. Whatever does exist out there has a meaning and a purpose that is unfathomable to the human being and is neutral/objective to our lives. The present universe that we inhabit, however, seems to be endowed with our very human meanings, significances, concerns, purposes, our Forms, and our arche-typical existences. our reality mirrors itself, patterns itself after itself. in that same way, we validate ourselves with our self-limiting vision ("the designer is only required to be as complex and purposeful as the designed object").

When we close our eyes is the world still there beyond the lids, outside of our collective consciousness? If senses and perceiving through the senses is our only experience of the world as we know it, what happens to the world around us when we cease to perceive of it?

a lost thought from the previous blog: the rule of change seems to violate its own existence, cancel itself out. The only constant is change is as contradictory as never say never, since the fact that there will always be change cant change - change is not omnipotent, omnipresent. if you break seconds down into infinite slices, what has changed was already there. or maybe thats just twisted logic.