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Here is a variation of an old question. If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there, does it make a sound?

If humanity no longer exists 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, hear, smell, 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.

What say you?