Integrating Cybernetic Big Five Theory with the Free Energy Principle: A new strategy for modeling personalities as complex systems

hello everyone i think we are live this is active inference live stream 13.0 it is january 3rd 2021 welcome to the active inference lab everyone new and old listeners we are an experiment in online team communication learning and practice related to active inference you can find us at our website on twitter our email address youtube page or key base public team and username this is a recorded and an archived live stream so please provide us with feedback so that we can improve on our work in the live chat or in comments and all backgrounds and perspectives are welcome here video etiquette for live stream mute if there's noise in the background raise your hand so we can hear from everyone and use respectful speech behavior so happy 2021 everyone for the scheduled active inference live streams in 2021 we're going to do every single tuesday from 7 to 9 a.m pacific time which will include daylight savings time changes and for schedule and participation instructions just go to this shortened link here also we're going to do several special sessions for example coding sessions or discussions with external people from other communities and just if you have an idea for an event that you think could be interesting or you would like to moderate or just suggest you can let us know or you can send a tweet and tag that person if you know them and then we can set it up but the regular active inference live streams the group plan discussions are at again that shortened link and it has instructions for how to let us know you want to participate in any of these events and the first two weeks of january so these next two weeks we are going to be in uh reading this paper by adam saffron and colin deyoung and then you can see whatever papers are most updated for the next several months at that link today in active inference live stream 13.0 the goal is really to set context for 13.1 and 13.2 so kind of like a read-along for the paper if you want to participate in the discussion or if you want more context on it and the paper is integrating cybernetic big five theory with a free energy principle a new strategy for modeling personalities as complex systems by saffron and young on october 16 2020 at this psi archive link and the video just like all the point zeros are is just an introduction to the ideas and the context it's not a review or a final word the punchline of the paper is that we can combine psychology with the cybernetic theories of cb 5t the cybernetic big 5 theory which we'll discuss and free energy principle active inference to have a better understanding of psychobehavioral dynamics in humans and other systems the sections of 13 will be as follows first will be the aims and claims of the paper then the keywords abstract and roadmap then go through the figures and the table and then conclude with several questions that people can ask themselves whatever level of familiarity they have with the ideas so in 13.1 and 13.2 we're going to be discussing this paper as a group so save and submit your questions and get in touch if you want to participate okay the paper is as said on the previous slide the aims and claims of the paper in the author's words are from the conclusion we have begun to outline how artificial agents based upon free energy principle and active inference might be used to test cybernetic big five theories uh theoretical propositions regarding the functional significance of the dimensions in the big five trait hierarchy which is from psychology here are the implications and why it matters from the author's conclusion as well if deep correspondences can be found between cb5t and fep-ai as we suggest is likely to be the case due to their common cybernetic foundations then this integration may allow personality modelers to obtain new understanding with respect to functions and then to parlay that understanding of function into new hypotheses about mechanisms in the brain and finally identifying the configurations of…