What you’ve been waiting for! The 2024 APE Proceedings are here! Now we are seriously starting to plan for 2025 – APE Development. Whatever sort of Development you want to think about, we’ll be here for you!
Debate may continue to rage about the existence and nature of consciousness among philosophers, neuroscientists and others ( see the latest from Nature here), but we are done with the topic. We’re already looking forward to APE 2025 with conference dates set for January 13-16.
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The approach of 30 June means two things: 1. It’s never been a better time to register for the next APE conference 2. Season passes at SilverStar are at their lowest rate before this date. The approaching cold weather system currently hitting South Eastern Australia is another little reminder of the Canadian winter around the […]
To quote a number of 2023 participants “What a great conference!”. For a bit of a flavour, check out the summary proceedings here. One of the big discussion points was the use of AI. ChatGPT had just started to gain attention when we ran the conference. Lately, we’ve been playing with the text to image AI […]
January 9-14, 2022 saw the post COVID resurrection of APE conferencing. It was not without some cobwebs but the end result was an excellent conference with many fascinating presentations on the experiences of the last few years and speculations about the future. In the immediate future is the preparation of summary conference proceedings and then […]
As announced, the theme for the 2023 conference is “Après Recovery”. It’s nice to think that this will reflect a post-pandemic world, even as infection rates currently remain high. We seem to have moved to a new worry – inflation*. Apparently avocados are one of the few grocery items we can buy now without feeling […]
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Sadly, the convenors of APE are old enough to have lived through many types of inflation including the dreaded stagflation. The 1980s, arguably our prime years, practically invented stagflation. Stagflation sounds kind of fun until you figure out that the “stag” bit did not refer to Triumph sports cars, deers with huge antlers or other […]
2023: Après Recovery? 2022 was supposed to be the “Recovery” conference. In the end it was an Omicron washout. But it is “game-on!” for 2023. Tentative dates are 10 to 13 January, 2023 for an “Après Recovery” themed conference. Of course anything is possible in this terrifying new world. But as we wait to see […]
Optimistically, we have booked travel to Canada for January 2022. Can’t wait to get there and I know a lot of others are thinking the same way. We NEED to gather and process what has happened over the last two years and start to plan for the next. So we are planning to hold a […]
A few months ago we were buoyed by airlines announcing they were getting international flights going by October 2021. It’s pretty clear that that is not going to happen. The Australian Budget is predicated on international travel not resuming until June 2022. Accordingly, odds are that we won’t be running a conference in January 2022. […]