Well whether it makes a sound is all based on whether the mime survives. Noise is nothing but air vibrations. There actually has to be someone there to hear it and interpret the air vibrations as sound for it to exist. unless of course sound exists as some sort of platonic form or whatever. I guess it all depends on how you view metaphysics.
Why is it that the god of the bible seems so quick to try and prove his authority? Is it because he was competeing with many other gods? Because metaphysically he survives by some qusi-parasitic relationship between us and our spiritual investment in him? Is it something stranger still? And at what point can one decide they are a god? Soon tthe human genome will be cracked, we may verry well be able to turn off genetic decay and by extension ageing, thus makeing us nigh immortal if we're wealthy enough. We are already able to do incredible things, reshape the verry landscape to our whim, make vast amounts of machines capable of a near limitless and ever expanding list of things, we are able to recreate animals to our own desires first through eugenics, breeding programs, and domestication and soon possibly through genetic engineering.
At what point will man be justified, by the words definition, of declareing itself a race of gods?
Now? Or when we finally have gotten to the point where there is other sentience which fauns and awes over us? Whether they be uplifted dogs, evolved chimps, or AIs we have programmed to serve our ever growing 'needs' and desires?
Okay...sorry, philosophical tangeant over... but at least its on the right thread lol. 