If the firing neurons in the dish resemble a part of the neurons involved in the brain when ýou feel pain it might be that pain ho(o)vers around in the dish.

The question is if we can cut the pain out. If we have a drawing of the brain, we can cut the region, involved in feeling pain, out with scissors.

You can remove working structures from a functional brain-body-surrounding, and it will still be functioning. If what you remove will still be functioning, say the neurons responsible for smell, the dish will not possess the smell of rotten eggs. That can only be experienced by the creature experiencing.

Continuity is infinite and uncountable. Though you can have one continuity, two continuities, three continuities, more continuities, many continuities, enough continuities, ànd no continuities. How many points reside in a continuity? Is a point a zero dimensional continuity? Does continuity require one dimension at least?

Yeah, I mean it's clear you cannot contend with empiricism and materialism. It's not that I think as much, I'm quite literally watching you run away from a discussion because of basic facts of physics. — Garrett Travers

You sound like Jehova witnesses pointing people to them running away from the basic facts of God.

A gap in knowledge regarding material reality, does not imply knowledge of something else. That too requires evidence as an assertion. — Garrett Travers

If the final gap is closed, what remains?

Must reality fit our intuitions? — Janus

Yes. A particle is a particle. A wave is a wave. You can have waves of particles. All being one. But that's still a wave in which particles move. Or one particle.

**No combination of lesser things can create a greater thing without something greater than the greater thing added to the lesser things.**

This is simply the divine spark that's been added to the universe. The fire breath into the equations. That which makes them work.

I don't read prayer books. I just look around me. What's your thing with values of variables and knowledge?

light is both wave and particle. — Janus

How can that be? How can it be both at the same time?

Knowledge in no way resembles pearls. One can have knowledge of the fundamental workings of the universe, the holistic laws thriving on them, and the connecting links between them, but how devoid this knowledge would be without a profound understanding of the innards, sparked and sprinkled with divine spirit?

Honestly, I may take you up on that sometime, because I've had a recent resurgence of oppositional emotion toward religion, to the point of hostility even. — Garrett Travers

Why is that? Who else than God could have made the heavens and life in it. Or at least the stuff giving rise to it? There is no physical explanation for the universe.

The great philosophers distinguished between opinion and knowledge. — Joe Mello

Where do you draw the line though?

I think it's rather curious that you were welcomed with egards and the egards changed.

It's undeniable that God is the ultimate reason we are fooling around in the muddy waters of the Earthly realms, be it here or somewhere in Andromeda. Does this realization of Him being indirectly present in everything give life a heaviness or lightness?