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Tough one. You're asking: Is the sound the vibrations in the material medium, or is the sound
the sensation in the brain of a person or animal ?

I'm an engineer, and here's my personal opinion: To me, the sound is the vibration in the material medium,
and it doesn't care whether or not there's anybody there to hear it.

So when a tree falls in the forest and there's nobody there to hear it, yes, it still makes a sound anyway.

And when a man speaks in the forest and there's no woman there to hear him, yes, he's still wrong anyway.

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