Textbook Group meeting for Parr, Pezzulo, Friston 2022 .

hey everyone welcome to week 12 of octave textbook group cohort one we are in the review and synthesis weeks it's been a great three-month-ish journey and it doesn't stop here but we'll go over that so two points of process for those who are here live and of course re-watching and then we'll move to the more conceptual parts so first in the onboarding page you'll see these two columns the two columns are rsvping yes to join cohort two part one going through chapters one through five if you would like to for a second time many people will be just doing it for fun or for learning or however they want and also there's the opportunity to continue on with the second half of the textbook which is going to get into a lot of the hands-on modeling and we'll be especially looking forward to developing a lot of the notebooks and interactive formats that'll help us get a lot of understanding there um so please check yes for whichever row your name is in for whether you would like to continue on with part two as well as retake uh part one as well you'd be welcome to be just a participant and also feel free to get in touch if you are interested in taking some other roles such as like facilitating or scaffolding some aspect but we can talk more about that for those who are interested so point one go to the onboarding list and continue on however you want second point um if you go to future textbook groups page you'll see an embedded form as well as a link to the form if you want it in a new window like that this would be exceptionally requested and helpful for you to provide some evaluations numerically and as short or as long as you want on providing feedback those are one way that you can provide feedback anonymously the second way is uh building on some of the ideas that people are already adding here this is an editable page so people can add thoughts as they see fit about like what would be awesome for future textbook groups or any other feedback or as always they can email active inference activeinference.gmail.com if they want like a response to any specific points um and then also it's provided here at the link to share for people who want to join future cohorts so that link will be like getting people onboarded into the next cohort which is september 2022 in this case but this is going to be like an evergreen form that will just continue to have a list of people who expressed interest and be on boarding them into subsequent cohorts of which will begin several per year going forward any uh and next week we'll be talking more about the feedback specifically and about projects and about carrying on today is like a little bit of a more conceptual synthesis and review and again next week will be more like logistical um and project oriented review so just on these points or anything else does anyone want to just raise their hand or unmute and share anything that they like okay let us conceptually review then um we read the first five chapters of the active inference textbook does anyone have overall thoughts that they'd like to provide at the five chapter scale then we're going to go into a chapter scale then we'll be continuing to dive in as um granularly as required but at the scale of the first five chapters you can see them here on this preface page as well as here in the chapters list as a unit of five chapters what were people's sense how did it update yes please ben and then only well i was just going to say i think um you know as i've said to people before i think coming from a non-mathematics background i thought that these chapters were really accessible in terms of the kind of conceptual uh things that they were putting on the table but i i just wondered what other people's opinions were in terms of um you know understanding the conceptual toolkit of active inference before you've built up a kind of mathematical understanding um because i'm about to start kind of um learning some of the mathematics behind it and i wondered…