Variation

VARIATION

Here is a variation to the old question,

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there, does it make a sound?

If humanity no longer exists

does reality exist?

If there is no one on earth

to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch

anything of the physical world,

does the earth itself continue to exist

or does it become non-existent

because there is no one

to see,

or hear,

or smell,

or taste,

or touch

anything of it?

Many say no,

but just as many say yes.

The ‘experts’ infer

that the mind perceives matter

and invests it with meaning,

and that without the mind to observe it,

matter has no meaning,

and as a result,

technically does not exist.

Therefore

what cannot be perceived

by any of the five (or some say six) senses

cannot exist.