If silence means "no sound" then how is it possible to hear it? There's nothing there for you to hear. Or did someone give "no sound" a name such as 'silence' so that it would be considered a sound simply because there's a name to describe it? Then you wonder, if we hear nothing, is that considered something that we actually hear?
Is nothing something we consider we can actually hear even though there is nothing there hence why we call it words like nothing, silence, quiet?
Even in a place where there is in fact 'no sound' the fact that sound is taking place elsewhere proves that it can never actually be silent at any time. Plus the fact that even if you can't hear anything what's to say that there isn't actually a noise being made at that moment but you just can't hear it due to the imperfection of your hearing?
I personally believed that silence was only a sate of mind. But again it is questionable. It could be considered a time where you are at a moment where you just simply stop thinking. But even when you think you're not thinking AHA you realize that you just contradicted yourself because you obviously just had a thought when you were thinking that you weren't thinking. As well it is impossible for the brain to just stop producing thoughts or what nots, unless you are dead and the body has shut down so the brain is shut down too. But otherwise there is always some sort of brain activity going on. So silence can't exactly apply to a state of mind either in that form.
So if we state that silence is not in fact a 'sound' then what exactly is silence? If not a sound and not a state of mind then what could it possibly be?
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