My point exactly........jwmorrice said:On reflection, I think my last post was a rather prickish, condescending one.
The answer to the question "if a tree falls in the forest, etc." comes down to how we interpret the word "sound". Do we take "sound" to mean the bare physical event of sound waves resulting from the falling tree or do we take it to mean the distinctively human way in which those sound waves are received as a human perception. The former will occur with or without a human presence but obviously not the latter. Reality is not congruent with perception.
jwm
As for data, to borrow a quote from Einstein: Data had an original idea once, but it died of loneliness.......