Embodied skillful performance: where the action is

all right we are live welcome everybody thank you for joining us live or in replay this is actin flab live stream number 23.0 it's may 27th 2021 and we're going to be talking about the paper embodied skillful performance and i'm daniel i'm here with blue and dean so thanks for joining you too welcome everybody to the actonflab we're a participatory online lab that is communicating learning and practicing applied active inference you can find us at the links that we have laid out here this is recorded in an archived live stream so please provide us with feedback so that we can improve our work all backgrounds and perspectives are welcome to contribute here and as far as video etiquette for live streams we'll be doing our best we're heading into june so soon in just a few weeks and we'll be having discussion number 23.1 and dot 2 on this paper so today it's going to be about background and context and then we're looking forward on june 8th and 15th 2021 to be talking about this in a group setting so as stated the goal of this 23.0 is to set the context for the upcoming 1 and 2 videos we're going to be discussing the paper embodied skillful performance where the action is which is a collaboration of hippolyto baltierri fristen and ramstead and just like the other dot zeros it's an introduction and a first pass to some of these ideas it's not a review or a final word we're going to go over the aims and claims the abstract roadmap and then kind of walk through the figures plus a few of these ideas because there are a lot of cool ideas and it's an embodied paper it's about our movement and our behavior in the world so hopefully that will lead all of us to have some fun ideas about what it means and where it applies and of course we're looking forward to the dot one and dot two discussions so you can write any questions during this stream in the live chat or you can write a comment or find a way to get that question to us otherwise and get in touch if you want to participate so to slide six we're checking out this paper embodied skillful performance where the action is and before we get to the aims and claims maybe each of you any just top of the head thoughts what made you excited or curious about this paper i don't want to talk too much about this because it was a great paper but i again could go off into the wilderness very rapidly so i want to just kind of stick to what the what the basics of the paper are and we'll worry about other ideas in point one and point two for me sounds great thanks for that contribution blue i've been just thinking a lot about um you know related to this paper and other work i'm involved in right now like how beliefs and desires and intentions map to action so it was really kind of cool to see this perspective nice um so maybe blue want to start with a aim of the paper or i'll read it or sorry i was needed this is the aim of this paper is to discuss critically the limitations of instructionist control theoretic models of skill for skillful performance so that's the overall aim yep nice that they said it so clearly so that's what they're trying to do they're bringing up what's the instructionist control theory model of skillful performance which we're gonna cover the background on and then they're going to show that that instructionist assumption in its strong and weak form is imbued in the optimal motor control theory or omct framework and then coming in to save the day active inference is going to be proposed as an alternative framework for understanding skillful performance and they then conclude by suggesting that if we understand these generative models within active inference as formal tools then we may be able to have an account of skilled performance that's based upon interactions rather than instructions so that's kind of cool because instructions are how computers work and education is also sometimes framed as being about instruction rather than interaction so here is the abstract and then…