A convoluted Thought
I was looking at a review of the movie "Fargo" and the review referred to the movie "Very Bad Things," a movie I also am familiar with. In both of these movies murder is the central construct of the movie. Contrast this to my life growing up as a funeral directors son and it had to get me thinking.Even though we will spend the vast, very vast, extrememly vast, portion of all available time "not-alive" we are all very protective of our own lives when we are technically, "alive."
In both of these movies one of the characters commits murder and then tries to cover up the event in order to stay alive, even though they have just caused someone else to do the opposite. Both movies have a police representative that is driven to right the situation by identifying the hapless murderers and setting the situation right, or as right as can be possible considering the dead state of the deceased persons previously murdered.
This kinda slips us back to the great question of reality. and what is it. (Reality and perception that is!!)
When I was teaching physics, there was a catch question we used to ask. It was dependent on the definition of sound. When a "medium" such as air, water, earth, stone, etc. is disturbed by something waves are passed through it. By disturbed I mean talking, clapping two objects together, dropping a plate, or the like. Now comes the definition of sound. Sound is a sonic wave that stimulates the hearing or is heard by the auditory senses of a creature of some kind. Sonic waves are just that, disturbances or whatever, sound it the reception and interpretation of these waves by a living being.
So here we go. The big question. If a tree is struck by lightening in the woods and falls to the groung during a storm (or whatever) and nobody (or no creature) is there to hear it, did it make a sound?
Later!
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