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"If a tree falls in the forest, but no one hears it, does it make a sound?" …

x Dissolving the Question — LessWrong Reductionism 101 Dissolving the Question Philosophy Philosophy of Language Introspection Frontpage 166 Dissolving the Question by Eliezer Yudkowsky 8th Mar 2008 6 min read 123 166 "If a tree falls in the forest , but no one hears it, does it make a sound?" I didn't answer that question. I didn't pick a position, "Yes!" or "No!", and defend it. Instead I went off and deconstructed the human algorithm for processing words, even going so far as to sketch an illustration of a neural network. At the end, I hope, there was no question left—not even the feeling o

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