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 has a new daily podcast http://shortfunk.com/ Sometimes he talks about things relating to Biota.

Tom asks if anyone in the community is interested in participating in an ongoing podcast. Please get in contact: tom at nobleape dot com

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

The Biota Podcast's home has moved to http://biotacast.org/

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)