/home/bill/Documents_Toshiba/CNPS 2015 - Our Third Phase.txt 03Jan2014 David de Hilster, webmaster for the CNPS will be presenting the "Third Phase" of the natural philosophy group now called the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society. David will be joined by others in the group who will be supporting this iniciantive including the 2015 Conference, 2015 Proceedings, and the new "Third Phase" of the groups journey. Don't miss out on the presentation of the new directions coming in 2015 for the CNPS! [Howell - can't see participants, can't see chat] community.naturalphilosophy.org join 40$/ 6 months ********************** Interesting comments Stephen Hurrell - book on dinosaur size James Maxlow - expansion tectonics Structures - Don Bridell, Greg Volk Aether, relativity - Glen Borchardt, Chris Eckman (brown gas) Teaching Philosophy - Luiz Sauerbonn engineering students taught to look at data rather than theories. "Don't ever call me a theoretical physicist - There is nothing theoretical about physics." Einstein Wrong film - not one film festival acceptance, got to final cut in 2 festivals All film festivals getting 10 times more online submissions than 2 years ago. "SciFlix Film Festival" - in conjunction with CNPS film festival James ?Maxlow? - particles from Sun expanding the Earth. Stephen Earl - group making Expanding Earth model ********************* Howell's comments I can't see the list of participants, only Greg volk and myself. I guess we are all anonymous? (This message was sent to all presenters) 8:14 am I can't see my own chat comment either. (This message was sent to all presenters) 8:21 am Great idea - Dissident Film Festival, reminds me of "Free Thinking Film Festival" in Ottawa - political oppression etc (This message was sent to all presenters) 8:22 am Non-presenting attendees - I'm one of the zeros! (This message was sent to all presenters) 8:51 am Data-driven analysis (agnostic of theory) is strong in Computational Intelligence field (incl machine learning). (This message was sent to all presenters) 8:53 am Key Principle - "Multiple Conflicting Hypothesis" to avoid being a tool of a theory, instead of the other way around. (This message was sent to all presenters) 8:59 am Democratic science? - careful, that leads to political decisions. Better to push independent, unfettered, amateurs. Amateurs ARE again a major influence on the edges of science, as disillusionment grows with forma science [institutions, individuals]. (This message was sent to all presenters) 9:02 am Randomness is completely unappreciated as a key decision-making tool. Effective solution of complex problems requires at least one random component (eg searches in state space) (This message was sent to all presenters) 9:39 am Great overview of what he future could be for CNPS and how to use the new tools. I wasn;'t aware of the membreship 40$ / 6 months for community.naturalphilosophy.org - you should resend emails cause I;''m happy to pay! (This message was sent to all presenters) 9:40 am Multipress (instead of Wordpress basic) isounds like a GREAT idea - hopefully each individual can have multiple blog streams? (or pay for additional "sub-names to have extra streams)? (This message was sent to all presenters) 9:41 am Complaints? I can't find chats and participants list in the new fuze!?!? (This message was sent to all presenters) 9:42 am Mayber this new fuze system isn't LinuxMint - friendly? (This message was sent to all presenters) 9:49 am Hah! Now I found the listing of chat comments! (click on GV icon beside chat window,, which is brought up by rectangular icon in bottom right of screen.) Now to find the participant list (wish the dumb icons didn't take up so much space on the participant panel at the top of the screen.) 9:50 am But I can't see chat comments by others .. Great information meeting! ****************** Chat record [Howell - can't see participants, can't see chat] enddoc