Textbook Group meeting for Parr, Pezzulo, Friston 2022 .

hello everyone thanks for joining the seconds meeting where we're going to be discussing chapter one it's the active textbook group and it's may 12 2022. you can click on my screen and that will show you the full screen we updated the live meeting page a bit and it's just like all these other pages a work in progress but hopefully this will be a structure where we'll be able to hear everyone's perspective and leave the the platform in a better place than we found it so what we'll do in the live meetings which from here on out or at least for here for the next two and a half months or so are going to be like driven by the material in the chapters and in the appendices we're going to go to the questions page and we're gonna look at the questions that have been asked for that week for that theme and we're just gonna start with the most upvoted questions and then we're gonna be taking notes in the answers in the discourse and we'll go into a little bit more detail when we flip to that page and then after addressing questions for probably most of the time and discussing that we'll go pull back a little bit more broadly like ideas for that week um and then in the last minutes we can just see if there's been any changes to the project ideas and start to see what people are excited about applying active inference to and then we'll end at the top of the hour and take a quick break and then there'll be a tools organizational unit meeting following for those who want to just like listen or participate in dot tools so let's head over to questions and i'm going to hide the sidebar because we're going to be mostly here in questions okay so it's awesome and also control and plus minus or control and scroll is like a good way to resize how it looks um so this is our first week with this format and anyone's welcome to like suggest a a variant or a different way to carry this out but um the co-organizers of the textbook group kind of thought we could do something along these lines the questions we're gonna be looking at are in chapter one so that's the chapter we're discussing today and we're going to start with the ones that have the most upvotes in the interesting um and just spend a couple minutes on each of the questions and at any point there are the affordances of just listening and also of course re-watching this recording there's also the affordance in gather to raise your hand if you'd like to share on that question that we're going to have up and additionally in the um by clicking on the answers in discourse that will pull up like a focused view on that question and everybody can collaboratively edit the answers in discourse and so it's better to like add and be noisy even if it's a bullet point list or an incomplete sentence or there's incoherence or it's contradictory those are all fine it just like adds information and perspectives to the question so yeah we're going to go to each question open up the answers in discourse read the question see what has already been contributed in the answers in discourse and then also like if people want to share other thoughts that they're having that's awesome and then also if anybody wants to be like taking other notes just things that are coming to mind that they don't want to share in a speaking way or just taking some notes on what other people are saying um so let's just go into it and i'll be just keeping an eye for the raised hand in gather or anybody who wants to speak so um starting with this first question maybe we can have like a like addressed during recording or something like that but so how do you understand the distinction between the high road and the low road to active inference what do you think is interesting or useful about this distinction so does anybody want to like just summarize how they were thinking about the high in the low road or we can look at what um others have already written here what is the difference between the high road and the low road are there other roads are…