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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Is there noise in the external world, or is reality silent?
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Originally Posted by TGS
So long as there is something equipped with the sensory apparatus to hear it there is noise - but if there isn't anything so equipped then there isn't noise.
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Sound is energy. That energy has to go somewhere and if it is intercepted by auditory senors then we have noise/sound that the brain has to interpret. Without the brain is there still sound ?
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Originally Posted by TGS
So, here's your mission - should you choose to accept it - without relying on vitalism, say what the difference is between an living thing and a non-living thing.  |
Everything is alive, just responsive within different scales of time.