Ape Reality

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 may not be using Ape Reality as a format going forwards. Please consider subscribing to the Stone Ape podcast if you would like to get a weekly podcast containing some Noble Ape related content. Tom won't be attending the ALIFE conference this year and is feeling generally disenchanted with the artificial life community. The atomic threading is working very well now. Tom also discusses a top down graphics as a means of showing the Noble Ape environment. Will Noble Ape appear on the Mac App Store? If you want more Ape Realities please make contact with Tom.

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 and Bob chat about a number of developments in the simulation. They then digress into a discussion about Stone Ape and Wilmslow.

Taking the original Ape Reality podcast to a completely new format, Tom floats the first Troop Report where users and developers of the Noble Ape Simulation can get together to discuss interesting uses and problems through the Simulation. Tom makes reference to the Stone Ape podcast (nobleape.com/stone). This initial episode Tom is joined by Bob Mottram to talk about the recent addition of QT to the Noble Ape Linux interfaces and a number of other topics. Noble Ape's resident longterm tester, Andy Ypsilon, calls in to discuss how his testing is motivated by an emotional connection and some features he would like to see in Noble Ape. It is intended that this format be used going forward and the recordings would take place roughly onces per month.

Taking a break from the Noble Ape talk, this piece of music is one of the many 'anthems' that has defined sections of the Noble Ape development. I worked with a group of late-teen somethings on their comedy podcast in 2007. It included the irrespressible, Blake Buck, who provided the vocals. Part of editing the show was creating an original composition each show. This was my favorite pieces through the thematic elements alone. More of these interludes will follow through the podcast feed.

Tom discusses a bit about ALIFE XIII and some of the current development of Noble Ape.

This is a talk given primarily to biologists on the Noble Ape Simulation. The academics who don't introduce themselves are Prof. Fred Dyer, Dr. Aaron Wagner and Prof. Robert Pennock.

This is an impromptu discussion between Tom Barbalet, Dr. Arend Hintze and Carlos Anderson (both at MSU) about Noble Ape.

A short talk on the open source aspects of Noble Ape.

Tom and Bob rap on honor and reflecting outside of conversations.

Tom talks with Bob Mottram about some of the ideas currently circulating in the Noble Ape development.

Tom wakes to a burning question from Bob Mottram that indicates there is a substantial need for an updated podcast. Tom covers the new higher res graphics view, some missing code, an outstanding bug, auto updates, what is going on with ApeScript and a future chapter. If you have any questions or comments please contact tom via tom at nobleape dot com

Following a review of some pretty humbling download numbers associated with Ape Reality, Tom returns for an update on the development. Topics include sharing Mac and iPad code together with sharing Windows and Linux code. The problems with the Windows development now Tom is sans Windows. Bob Mottram's most recent changes motivating 2d procedural graphical representations of the Noble Apes. If you have any questions or comments please contact Tom via tom at nobleape dot com

Tom announces he will be moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. Sorry for the lack of content in recent months.

Celebrating fifteen years of the Noble Ape development, Tom chats with Douglas Rushkoff about how to set up a project like Noble Ape now, how things have changed since Cyberia, simulations, open source and the human versus the project.

The discussion begins with basic changes to the Noble Ape file format but no XML for now. Tom talks briefly about a new popular science book on Noble Ape and a future recording with Douglas Rushkoff.

Celebrating fifteen years of the Noble Ape development, Tom chats with Bo Daley about the early development, the Simulation's impact on ecology and philosophy and Bo's music.