Comments on: The Living Matrix http://www.gpdawson.com/blog/2009/08/08/the-living-matrix/ A quest for pure reason Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:05:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Phil Earnhardt http://www.gpdawson.com/blog/2009/08/08/the-living-matrix/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Phil Earnhardt Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:54:27 +0000 http://www.gpdawson.com/blog/?p=47#comment-5 I was doing some google-diving tonight and found your comments about The Living Matrix. I published a review of the film <a href="http://floatingbones.com/?p=92" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Today, I drilled down to claims about "instantaneous" shifts in flocks of birds and commented about that <a href="http://floatingbones.com/?p=171" rel="nofollow">here</a>. It's extremely difficult to evaluate a film like this from viewing a single theatrical showing. Far too many ideas are thrown up far too quickly. If you noted all of the above from a single viewing, I'm quite impressed. I do not think that tightly-cut documentaries are a good way to communicate science. I was doing some google-diving tonight and found your comments about The Living Matrix. I published a review of the film here. Today, I drilled down to claims about “instantaneous” shifts in flocks of birds and commented about that here.

It’s extremely difficult to evaluate a film like this from viewing a single theatrical showing. Far too many ideas are thrown up far too quickly. If you noted all of the above from a single viewing, I’m quite impressed. I do not think that tightly-cut documentaries are a good way to communicate science.

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