Biota.org's Artificial Life Podcast

Tom discusses the background and potential of Noble Ape in the cloud with JSON. http://www.longfunk.com/archive.html#51

Noble Ape banter is a real luxury. http://www.longfunk.com/archive.html#45

Tom Barbalet is interested in restarting the podcast but he needs your help. barbalet at gmail dot com for more!

Tom introduces the podcast by discussing his many podcasts and what he has learnt from all these recording. To subscribe go to http://www.longfunk.com/

Originally intended for Bruce's Levity Zone podcast, the following recording seemed a better fit for those who were artificial life savvy. Bruce concludes the conversation with how he may be doing something with deep computation in the future after all.'

Tom Barbalet presents a new project using Noble Ape to provide analysis of murder crimes with agent and language simulation.

Tom starts the discussion talking about the Forensics Science book. http://www.meetup.com/Conscious-in-the-Cloud/events/218785595/ is the meet-up for Tom's talk. What about the philosophy of the deteriorating mind? Don't look for qualia in the trees in Australia, they are in the National University. Hey hey hey, it's Folk Ethics. They digress into some discussion of race and homelessness.

Liz and Tom start discussing an improved sound and recovered health. Liz plugs her next book project and Tom talks about his mis-spent yoof. Tom poses a metaphysics problem from simulation. They digress into Kant. Science fiction provide mixed blessings as does virtual reality. They explore applied philosophy and assistants versus publicists.

Tom Barbalet and Liz Swan launch a pilot podcast exploring what happened to artificial life?

Reese Jones, Tom Barbalet and a number of other folk provide a discussion around what is consciousness in the context of the internet and cloud computing.

With the number of listeners to this podcast, Tom makes a plea for content in 2014. What would you like to hear? Would you like to submit audio? Please get in contact (tom at nobleape dot com)

Tom Barbalet presents the final talk at Conscious in the Cloud in response to the prior Conscious in the Cloud talk with Larry Yaeger.

Tom Barbalet brings the C-Realm's KMO and Polyworld's Larry Yaeger together to discuss artificial life in the cloud. The audience presents questions to the three participants and the ethics of artificial life in the cloud is explored.

Three Toms get together to discuss Reddit and artificial life, two of the Toms introduce their backgrounds, Tom Barbalet answers questions from Reddit on Noble Ape and they talk about how to create a substantial artificial life project with integrity.

Tom chats Stephan Rafler on Smoothlife: a cellular automata simulation with smooth time and space.

Tom chats with Bruce about the EvoGrid, the ChemoGrid and Genesis engines.

Tom Barbalet chats with Prof. Roy Plotnick about his work and his use of artificial life. They talk about more complex agent algorithms and what more Roy would like to see from the community.

Tom Barbalet presents the hobbyist get-to-gether at the ALIFE XIII conference. (This is noise reduced but otherwise unedited audio.)

Tom Barbalet presents teaching artificial life for industry. Please note this talk was particularly poorly attended and thus had to be cut short. If you haven't heard the first workshop's audio on Artificial Life in Industry please listen to it first. Similarly if you are interested in the discussion following on Noble Ape, please check out the Ape Reality podcast, http://www.nobleape.com/reality/ (This is noise reduced but otherwise unedited audio.)

Tom Barbalet presents the artificial life in industry workshop. This is noise reduced but otherwise unedited audio.