If a tree falls in the forest

If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound?

If humans disappeared from the face of the Earth, would there still be any arrogance left? Of course it makes a sound.This pseudo clever remark illustrates the absolute depths of depravity from which human arrogance rises.

If the sun shines and there is no one to feel it, is it still sunny? If the rain falls and the wind blows, but there is no one there to get wet or have her hair tossed, does it still rain or does the wind still blow?

When a deaf Beethoven composed his music, did this music exist? Of course it did, just as the wind, rain, sun and falling trees exist. The world is not merely a reality so long as humans perceive it. Man is an animal, albeit a clever one, but the idea that outside stimuli have value and reality only if funneled through his perception, is so extraordinarily arrogant that it defies all bounds of decency.

Long after the last human heart stops beating, probably because of some virus created in a lab or through some unprecedented volcanic eruption, trees will still fall and they will still make a sound, even if there is not one set of ears from any species to hear it. Arguing the contrary position reveals a bloated, obnoxious and unjustified self-importance.