You check the crash logs
Ah… it reminds me of nethack. Everytime you ate an apple it’d echo “core dumped.”
Badum tssss
Logs? What logs?
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it doesn’t.
Oh, ok.
It creates sound waves…
Uh…
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Are you earnestly saying sound only exists if someone hears it?
A sound, also known as “air vibrations” to some, exists independently of a listener. It does not “become sound” only if someone hears it.
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This isn’t philosophy, It’s wankery.
Sound is a matter of Newtonian physics, which do not in any way care about linguistics or perception.
The universe is not so concerned with our perspective that it changes itself to suit us.
What is sound if not vibrations in the air?
It’s an ontological argument. OP is creating a categorical distinction where “sound” is the cognitive process by which pressure waves are perceived, eg as information. I think it’s a fairly common distinction to make, but it is also kind of unsatisfying is the sense that it feels a bit like linguistic nihilism.
linguistic nihilism
i had a sudden vision of winning fediverse bingo with this entry being called
