As an aside, the tree falling the woods saying is incredibly dumb, of course it makes a noise. The part that’s supposed to be thought provoking is the assumption that the entire world revolves around our lives, a bacteria on the surface of a piece of dust in an incomprehensibly larger whole. But no, physics is an illusion that doesn’t exist outside of us experiencing it.
Of course it is dumb but it is one many understand and it illustrates a point. Do you have an alternative that is as recognizable and is just as eloquent?
As an aside, the tree falling the woods saying is incredibly dumb, of course it makes a noise. The part that’s supposed to be thought provoking is the assumption that the entire world revolves around our lives, a bacteria on the surface of a piece of dust in an incomprehensibly larger whole. But no, physics is an illusion that doesn’t exist outside of us experiencing it.
Of course it is dumb but it is one many understand and it illustrates a point. Do you have an alternative that is as recognizable and is just as eloquent?