Textbook Group meeting for Parr, Pezzulo, Friston 2022 .

all right hello everyone it is week 11. and we're in chapter five part two of the active textbook group first cohort will be now turning to some of the more direct questions on chapter five after having more of a overview last week we'll also um be concluding our regular chapter discussions for the first part of this book and in the coming two weeks we'll be having some review and synthesis and connecting some dots asking overarching questions returning to questions that were based in a specific chapter and hopefully people like on their own or wherever else they're seeing is relevant or requesting new pages if they see something that they want providing some synthesis on this first half of the textbook which is the epistemic half and then um for people who want to continue in the textbook group go to the onboarding page and there's two columns there's yes for part two of cohort one chapter six through ten so check that box if you want to be included in starting in September going through chapters 6 through 10 which has like the recipe for active models and that's when we're going to be getting more Hands-On with the modeling also everyone is welcome to join for part one chapters one through five cohort two also starting in September so it could be um a fun experience just to get another coat of paint on the material play more active role ask another set of questions informed by what you've seen in the first cohort so feel free to um check those boxes and then also [Music] um keep incubating as we head into chapter um six and Beyond in the second half of the textbook um like the project ideas several um of the project ideas like related to what Mike and Noah have added we've started to address and explore in the active block runs meetings on Wednesday especially related to like cyber physical systems simulations taxonomies for governance these kinds of ideas um Brock's added some great notes about like what what is the ramp that gets someone to the low road or the high road um and then uh I've recorded the first chapter and the first segments as an audiobook the first chapter doesn't have any equations so it's straightforward to read but the subsequent chapters do have equations which is um motivating having the natural language representations of the equations so there's still a ton of um discourse questions that can be asked why things are one way why things are a different way if it can be placed into the equation itself that's great if it needs to be somewhere else hopefully the space exists and people can request if not but um for example when reading the textbook the equations can be read this way so those are just some of the projects that people can look forward to and the affordances to continue on which is again uh going to the onboarding and participating in first five chapters again cohort two or going to continue on with chapters six through ten starting in September for both of these so that we can like complete one pass of the book by the end of the year and also probably make a lot of progress on different project ideas and project ideas arising as we start to see and build templates for the models and also like Ali has some nice interactive notebooks so there will be a lot of great things um coming together if anyone wants to raise their hand of course just go for it otherwise we will be continuing with the questions asked about chapter five before we go to the questions is there any general comment that somebody wants to add about chapter five the reading of it they're rereading of it listening to the video from last week how is chapter five um hitting them today okay um to kind of maybe bring that one step closer to a specific question I'm not going to read this whole quote but this question says in the preface they wrote in chapter 5 we will move from formal treatments to biological implications of active inference this AIDS in mapping the abstract computational principles of active inference to specific…