2022 Active Inference Livestream Review

Hello and welcome everyone. It's December 31st, 2022. We are here in the 2022 Active Inference livestream review. Welcome to the Active Inference Institute. We're a participatory online institute that is communicating, learning, and practicing applied active inference. This is a recorded and an archived livestream, so please provide us with feedback so we can improve our work. All backgrounds and perspectives are welcome. We'll be following good video etiquette for livestreams. Head over to activeinference.org to learn more about getting involved in livestreams or various other projects and learning groups at the institute. Well, today is going to be great and fun. We are simply reviewing our streams from this past year. We're going to touch lightly or mildly on all the streams that we carried out from 2022. And by way of doing that, we may end up reflecting and pre-flecting, thinking about where we're going to head in 2023. So we'll begin with just an introduction and a hello. I'm Daniel. I am a researcher in California, and I'm excited to reflect. This is like the .0 preparation, .1, .2 discussion, and then afterwards we reflect. This is like the bookend reflection for all of those. And so it's like an even deeper level of nesting when we're going to juxtapose so many things that we talked about. And I'm sure at some neural level, whether somebody was familiar with the streams or whether they listened to none of them, there's going to be something about just touching on so many topics and so many perspectives being juxtaposed that I think is going to be really pleasant. To you, Dean. Yeah. Thanks, Daniel. I'm Dean. I'm here in Calgary. Maybe I'm a revised or recycled researcher. I don't know what my title is now, but after Daniel said, yeah, I think we should do this again, I was like, yeah, we absolutely should because it's, my metaphor is that it's kind of like double, double frying those French fries. It's a, it just adds an extra layer of integration or crispiness. That's a hard to resist. You, you get a, because the way that we present these things is, is hopefully a way of integrating a bunch of information because we talk amongst ourselves and it's helpful. And then you look back at yourself talking about yourself and others, and you just get a whole different perspective on it. So I actually, I'm really looking forward to sort of running through these things. It's going to be a sprint, but that's okay. It still gives you a chance to figure out what the milestones were. It's like seeing the entire Tour de France in, in a 30 seconds or 30 minutes, which is kind of fun. It's like we completed that marathon and now we're high speed watching the recording from our body camera. All right. Well, we'll keep with some patterns from the more paper centric discussions, like leading with big questions. So what was our stream of attention in 2022 and where and how will we stream in 2023? What did you have to add on these questions? Not, not, not a heck of a lot. I mean, it's, it'll be interesting given the amount of time that you committed to the endeavor of here's 2022. I wonder what we'll fill it with. I'm curious now that now that you're on the backside of that, what parts of what you hoped would be achieved came about and what parts do you think are still, there's still room for some, some backfilling? We'll come to that after we've touched on everything. Yeah. Yeah. I really liked what you added here though, in a world that is becoming more familiar with congregation and digital mediums and spaces is our use of technology more than an easy way to gain information access. You can be in the library all you want and you won't read a book. We can have all the access to information in the world and we won't necessarily digest and incorporate. We can have all the generative AI in the world writing in these amazing essays and making art, but where does that put us as information forager? And then you added, can we turn figuring…