# The Tree

**Published by:** [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/)
**Published on:** 2025-09-02
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## Content

If the proverbial tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound? If I can “hear” it in my mind, it does. If I “hear” nothing in my mind, it does not. The question leads to an image of a tree being conjured in the mind. And the issue of sound is resolved in the mind. We think-or at least I think- of a “world” in my head and a world outside of my head. But the birds chirping, the breeze flowing, the waves crashing….those are all in my head, in my mind. Whatever I am thinking of is in my mind. And what I am not thinking of, by virtue of my non-thought about it, is also in my mind. Existence is a function of the mind. And that makes my head feel lighter and heavier at the same time. A belt tightens around a cloud.

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