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03-13-2006, 04:23 AM
whyBish,Mar 12 2006, 11:47 PM Wrote:Sounds like an engineer trying to be clever about the difference between 'sound' and 'noise'
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Not really. It was an engineer trying to be clever about the "if a tree falls in the forest" philisophical question, and explaining it in a very convincing way. The difference between "sound" and "noise" is purely subjective.

His main thrust was that nothing can be called "sound" until it interacts with something that can classify it as such. Otherwise it's just vibrating molecules.

His explanation can also be transposed to other sensory stuff. Is something "hot", or is it just composed of excitable molecules? Is the sun "bright", or is it just emitting a lot of photons?

Again, semantics. It really doesn't matter in the end, but I think it's an interesting argument.
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