"If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one to hear it, does it make a sound?"
We cannot genuinely answer this without considering a few important factors which exists within the question and without it. Let us make a short list of the constituents of the environment we are investigating but before then, we will rephrase the question;
"If a tree falls and there is no one to hear it does it make a sound?"
This question is same as when one asks; when it thunders on a rainy day if there is no one to hear it does it make a sound?
To see that the both events mentioned (that of a tree falling or the event of thunder) are events that happens within an environment voids the emphasis on location. I say this without any ill because by many considerable factors, a Tree can fall at the central area of Abuja in the dead of the night when the watchmen are fast asleep but if you consider the Bats, Owls, Rodents Etc. would you say for a fact it did not make a sound? Likewise the event of Thunder, when it rains where man is yet to destroy (nature, forest Etc.) in a manner that there is a thunderstorm, if we consider the nesting birds, squirrels, reptiles, bats, other trees Etc., would you say for sure there was no sound? There are records of events when animals get frightened in their nest when it thunders, what conclusions do we make of that?
Which brings us to the point where we oblige that the factors to consider which constitutes what we call an environment with sound receptors are not fully conceptualized by man, and a Tree is not absent on the list of objects in the environment with inert nature to perceive and respond to sound.
Let us consider this instance which captured Late renowned Physicist Carl Segan who was asked "Does the universe have any meaning at all?" and he answered frankly-that if there were no humans that question would not matter at all. After much alone time with his response, I have concluded he is quite right but not in a fundamental sense. Because in the absence of Humans, how will it be proven if the question will arise in some other way or not?.
Every flying organism must have an interval when it should rest, and as we exercise our freedom to consider, from Air to Sea to Land, the thousands of billions of organisms equipped with locomotive abilities we have no record of any of them wondering or filled with anguish as a result of their inability to discover the meaning specifically attributed to their existence except the human organism. One realizes by these researches the truth that there are no real questions, that all questions are really born out of the wounded Self who all effort has failed in the quest to escape its apparent doom.
Now, if we are honest and willing to put the ego aside or the self perpetuated pressure to ascertain that we are the most intelligent of beings, and the quest for Nobel Prizes that subjects in existence/ nature where the human organism is not mentioned or is not the first institution that validates their existence/ occurrence are complete horseshit perhaps we will begin to encounter other more-sentient or advanced forms of life because there are.
How adroit to find out an organism that was created after all other things with reliable senses were created in a symbiotic-organic environment is asking the question "if a tree falls and there is no one to hear it does it make a sound?"
If there is "no one" (in the sense that no one is used here to represent all possible-existing organisms with sound receptors) or a complete absence of all the other constituents we have examined in the course of the research, the tree completely goes with that absence and the question also become non-existent. But if the question is as real as the environment-then a tree does certainly make a sound because the presence of a tree draws upon these various organisms to be considered with sound receptors including the Tree itself.
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Is there any action that you will take today that it’s feedback loop cannot be tracked to your organismic instinct for survival or gratification?
