Hi Students and Friends!
Today I learned some information about what happens when a tree falls in the woods!
It doesn't just leave a huge crater (as well as a huge mound) but it allows growth, a new habitat for new organisms to thrive!
So, give me this information:
List 5 organisms you may commonly find in a North American Forest
Out of this list, choose one organism and tell me at least 5 specific things it needs to thrive
Also,
If a tree falls in the woods, and no one is around to hear it fall...did it still fall?
:)
posted by Romney @ 5:19 PM
1 Comments:
Hey, this is Aja from Xavier's School for the Gifted (High School), and I think what you've asked is what we'd call, an existential question. It goes to the nature of being. What you are really asking is "If the tree falls, but it is not perceived by humans, does it really exist on a human level?" To say "Yes," is to take a leap of complete faith. To say, "No" is correct, because if the tree can't be perceived, then it does not exist by a mode of perception that (wo)man can understand; and yet it is flawed because it embraces a view of human and natural existence that glorifies the perception of (wo)man as being dominant. If a fish can hear the tree fall, does a fish then 'justify' the existence of the tree? And if so, does the fish now hold some level of natural or supernatural understanding that (wo)man lacks? These are very deep questions.
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