if helen keller fell over in the woods and no one was around to hear, would she make a sound?
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ha ha ha. very funny. NOT!!!
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Deaf.  I think I would feel less vulnerable that way.  Plus, if I learned sign language and/or lip reading, I would almost be able to compensate for my handicap.  However, with blindness, there is nothing you can easily do to bring any type of sight back into your life.  If blind, I would miss out on reading books (I don't think braille would be the same), watching the sunset and sunrise, watching the trees change color in fall, watching the new flowers bloom in spring, watching my loved ones grow up... Instead, I would be trapped in my own dark world.  No, deafness is definitely preferential.  Who cares about missing the sound of sirens, beeping traffic, swearing, screams of agony, fingers on a chalkboard...?
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No. And here's why: \n\nThe falling rock will create the compressions and rarefactions of air that are the external stimulus for the auditory receptors. \n\nSound, however, is more than just those compressions and rarefactions; for there to be a perception of sound there must be an organism to hear it. \n\nThis organism, in order to be able to hear a sound, must have a functioning auditory system that receives the external stimulus capable of transducing the stimulus from physical into electrical energy and have the proper neurotransmitters that will turn that electrical energy into chemical energy able to stimulate neurons. It must have uninjured neurons in the proper places that will receive that chemical energy and transform it back into electrical energy and back to chemical energy using the proper neurotransmitters to stimulate the next neurons in the chain. The organism must have all these neurons going to the proper areas of the brain that will receive the energy and impute meaning onto it from prior experience. This prior experience is why we (as verbal humans) label as sound the sensations coming from the compressions and rarefactions that hit our ears and go up the chain. Other organisms will not label the sensation as sound, but will behave in other appropriate manners indicating that they heard the sound.\n\nSo without an organism, there can therefore be no sound.
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this question is actually answered in my biology book..here is what it says:\n\n"perceptions, such as colors, smells, sounds and tastes, are constructions of the brain and do not exist outside it. so, if a tree falls and no one is present to hear it, is there a sound? the fall certainly produces pressure waves in the air, but if sound is defined as a perception, then there is none unless sensory receptors detect the waves and an animals brain perceives them"
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Yes, it makes a sound....but no one is around to hear the sound being made.
475814
If nobody is around to hear it, I guess we will never know!
1121991
No, but my aunt has. She has moved 4 times because she says she has heard people walking in her house when no one else was home. Some one would turn on the TV and no one would be home. So IDK.
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No, because the sonic boom would be deafening...
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Yes. It would be like saying things don't make sounds because deaf people can't hear it, It still makes sound, just no one is around to hear it.
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The old "If a tree fell in the forest, and there was nobody around to hear it, does it make a noise?" conundrum.  It depends on what you define as "a noise":\n\nIf you define "noise" as the creation and propagation of compression waves in the air at a variety of frequencies, then YES, the falling tree makes a noise.  A deaf person, who is incapable of hearing noises, would still feel the vibrations produced, as would any one of a variety of noise measuring devices.\n\nIf you define noise as the impingement of those compression waves on the human ear, with the resulting conversion into nerve impulses that stimulate certain specific portions of the human brain that we associate with "sound" or "noise", then NO, it does not make a sound, becuase there is no human ear present.\n\nSo, my final answer:  Yes, a tree falling in the forest makes a noise.  Doesn't matter if there's anyone or anything around to hear it.
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Halfway - then your walking out !\n\nThen you pass the trees that have fallen over but didn't make a noise because there was nobody there to hear them !
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She got lost on the way down
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I would be friendly and empathetic to her but at the same time, hyper aware that something was very, very wrong. We'd probably both be in danger. I'd want to disappear until I figured out what was going on.
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she probably got tired of getting blown up.....\nwink...
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The one that lives in the woods probably couldn't breathe underwater.
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Of course it does. Just because there is no one around doesn't mean that it doesn't make a sound.
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It doesn't matter...but if you shoot a mine and no one's around, will it make a sound???