HandMeDownCumSock t1_ixjhhpv wrote on November 23, 2022 at 10:13 PM

Reply to comment by Dave10293847 in Lopsided star cluster may disprove Newton and Einstein, controversial new study claims. An uneven distribution of stars in several nearby clusters may offer evidence of MOND — a controversial theory of gravity that disputes Newton and rejects the existence of dark matter. by nimobo

Were his equations supposed to cover those things though?

HandMeDownCumSock t1_ixigcq1 wrote on November 23, 2022 at 6:05 PM

Reply to comment by AtomicSquid in Lopsided star cluster may disprove Newton and Einstein, controversial new study claims. An uneven distribution of stars in several nearby clusters may offer evidence of MOND — a controversial theory of gravity that disputes Newton and rejects the existence of dark matter. by nimobo

Why do you say he was almost definitely wrong?

HandMeDownCumSock t1_iuhsmml wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:13 PM

Reply to comment by XxHavanaHoneyxX in Conscious Reality Is Only a Memory of Unconscious Actions, Scientists Propose In Radical New Theory by mossadnik

If our mind is just a machine that functions in accordance to available chemicals and stimulus then purely existing in the world will cause cognitive changes.

Your nutrition and available chemicals in your body changes over time, depending on what you consume, what kind of air you inhale, what kind of organisms are living inside of you. All these effect how your brain works.

Everything we see, hear, smell, touch, taste, is a stimulus that the brain will respond to. Even patterns and waveforms of light can change how your brain acts. Pretty much everything that exists is affecting how our brains work. We just ignore most of it.

The agents of change are even more obvious in a case of breaking an addiction. The experiences of being an alcoholic is constantly feeding into memory, each experience is different, and complicates that system. Even simply existing they will be put under the stimulus of withdrawal in some environment, the brain will react to that also. They may here a friend or family member's opinion on their addiction, they may read a book, see an ad online, they may see someone in public that makes them think a certain way, they may see a painting, or a building, or a piece of cheese that for some reason connects in their mind some action for change. It's never just one thing either, there's an unfathomable amount of stimulus happening all the time, and it can all work towards a cumulative effect like deciding to break a habit.

Further environmental factors, based on your brain, will influence whether you do or don't succeed. But those factors could be anything and everything.

HandMeDownCumSock t1_iuhppi2 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:48 PM

Reply to comment by Enzor in Conscious Reality Is Only a Memory of Unconscious Actions, Scientists Propose In Radical New Theory by mossadnik

Morality and ethics are just rules that prove to be mutually beneficial and thus are followed. An automaton would act morally if it was programmed to do so. If it had a learning function programmed in, it would even determine the correct mutually beneficial rules (morals) to use depending on the environment, which is no different to what we do.