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I will always firmly believe that when a tree falls in the woods, it will make a sound, regardless of the presence or not of onlookers.
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It will make a series of vibrations that will carry through the air at different frequencies, which, if encountered by a sound perceptory interface (i.e. - ears) and then processed through a system somehow to make coherent sense (i.e. - processed through a brain) it would be a sound. Otherwise, it is merely vibrations that could be heard if anyone was there to listen.
There is a degree of egocentrism to my existence, because without my body and mind the world would not exist to me.
I don't see there being an "objective reality" because there is no objective way to view reality. If we all see the same things slightly differently, and the meaning of the existence of those things hinges on how we see them, then it really isn't the same thing.