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I always thought the tree falling in the forest thing was an inpenetrable koan from the depth of ancient philosophy, but it's actually a pretty simple tool to highlight the difference between sound as a physical thing and sound as perception, two related but different concepts for which we only use one word, hence the confusion.
It is, certainly. I was coming at it from the perspective of if there weren't humans to count, we would still have 10 fingers. I.e., if there's no one around to count, do numbers still exist.