Comments on: The Loudest Leaf http://tommyangelo.com/blog/2010/06/05/the-loudest-leaf/ Tommy Angelo's Poker Blog. Here you will find a collection of my Poker Stories, Mindfulness Stories, and the occasional amazing movie of my cats. Mon, 21 May 2012 16:44:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Victor http://tommyangelo.com/blog/2010/06/05/the-loudest-leaf/comment-page-1/#comment-20053 Victor Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:16:43 +0000 http://www.tommyangelo.com/blog/?p=4317#comment-20053 from my experience it all depends on ones state of mind what you hear and what you don't hear. if you just sit and listen for a long time you will hear a lot of things that you have never heard before. or at least were not aware of. our mind can work both ways I think - as an amplifier of a real sound as well as a toolbox for the imagination of sounds. from my experience it all depends on ones state of mind what you hear and what you don’t hear. if you just sit and listen for a long time you will hear a lot of things that you have never heard before. or at least were not aware of. our mind can work both ways I think – as an amplifier of a real sound as well as a toolbox for the imagination of sounds.

]]> By: Tim http://tommyangelo.com/blog/2010/06/05/the-loudest-leaf/comment-page-1/#comment-19943 Tim Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:11:45 +0000 http://www.tommyangelo.com/blog/?p=4317#comment-19943 What you're saying is, that if a leaf falls in the forest and one person hears it, it may not have made a sound. So now we have a base case. We can conclusively prove by induction that even if every tree that ever existed fell down at once in the presence of all the people who ever existed, we still wouldn't be sure that they made a sound. I'm not sure if you've disproved philosophy, or everything else. What you’re saying is, that if a leaf falls in the forest and one person hears it, it may not have made a sound.

So now we have a base case. We can conclusively prove by induction that even if every tree that ever existed fell down at once in the presence of all the people who ever existed, we still wouldn’t be sure that they made a sound.

I’m not sure if you’ve disproved philosophy, or everything else.

]]> By: Tommy http://tommyangelo.com/blog/2010/06/05/the-loudest-leaf/comment-page-1/#comment-19933 Tommy Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:38:13 +0000 http://www.tommyangelo.com/blog/?p=4317#comment-19933 I remember having a similar epiphany one winter years ago in the wee small hours of the morning, sitting on the balcony at my apartment and enjoying the sibilant sound of snow smacking the ground. Until then, I'd never noticed you can actually hear snow falling. Attempts to replicate this experience in subsequent years have all been for naught. I REALLY like the "copy and paste" idea, though -- hadn't occurred to me, and I think there actually might be a grant in that. . . . I remember having a similar epiphany one winter years ago in the wee small hours of the morning, sitting on the balcony at my apartment and enjoying the sibilant sound of snow smacking the ground. Until then, I’d never noticed you can actually hear snow falling. Attempts to replicate this experience in subsequent years have all been for naught. I REALLY like the “copy and paste” idea, though — hadn’t occurred to me, and I think there actually might be a grant in that. . . .

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