Re:consciousness does not... (Score 1)

So you're saying that a tree that falls in a forest where no one is around to hear it DOES make a noise?

I think he was just trying to say the opposite, but in any case: Yes, of course. That's kind of basic physics. Sound is just a pressure wave and it propagates through a medium, air in the case of the forest. In this case, we don't even need to solve the partial differential equation which describes the phenomena(it's kind of really difficult to make a realistic model of the falling tree without taking an spherical cow approach), we can use the experimental result that you can hear the tree when you're there to see it falling. Just in case there's someone more pedantic than me, let's suppose that you're not near to it but a little far from the tree so you don't have to be included in the boundary conditions for the PDE and so, if it makes noise when you're there to hear it, it will also produce sound when you're not. :). Yeah, I suppose that the question was ironic, but I feel in the pedantic mood so... :)