Textbook Group meeting for Parr, Pezzulo, Friston 2022 .

Hello everyone, welcome to the Active Inference Par et al textbook group. Welcome to Cohort 3. Our journey begins here. It is January 25th, 2023. And this is an onboarding and overview meeting. So as with all meetings, it is being recorded. We know that no single meeting time will accommodate every single person's schedule every time. So live meetings of this type are recorded. And then later in this day, like 10 hours from now or something, there's the office hours, optional as everything is in Discord. And these meetings are recorded. They'll be available here. So for example, you can see from Cohort 2, there will be like a link for the video recording. This first meeting is onboarding and overview. So the first part is going to be going over the textbook group and the structure of the the platform, which I know looks large, but it is possible to focus in and steward the parts that you're interested in and not the parts that you're not. So I'm going to give an overview of the structure of the textbook group in terms of synchronous and asynchronous participation. And in the Zoom chat, please feel free to ask any questions you want just so that we can address them. The goal here is to reduce your uncertainty, increase your confidence around participating. There are so many ways to participate and we want to welcome and accommodate and encourage everyone coming from totally different learning preferences and backgrounds. So I'm starting on the very top left of our the platform and the link has been put in the chat and also note that I'm using dark mode. So the platform might look like that, but I'm using it in dark mode. Welcome to the Active Inference Institute. Many people here in this room right now, I know have been fundamental and with us for years. Others, this might be one of your first times joining. That's all great. And I'll put this link in the chat. The textbook group is one of many activities that are ongoing at the Institute. So here we are in the Paradol textbook group and there's other education and research oriented activities that you can explore and find out more about. But for now, we're going to be focused on the textbook group and we'll reach out to other sources and places as we need. The textbook itself is open source. We are talking about the textbook from 2022, the Active Inference textbook by Parr, Pizzullo, and Friston. And it's an open source textbook, which is awesome. That allows us to facilitate us, of course, working in this way. And also it allows you to download the textbook. So you can download the document right here. And I know there's some other efforts that some of you have started involving like making it a living textbook. The directory page, and you can hide and show the sidebar. Sorry, one second. The directory page has information on different sections of the the platform and what you can find there. Live meeting page summarizes when our live meetings are happening. And we're specifically in cohort three. So here we are. This list is just auto populated from the names that people have put. So let us know if you want anything to be changed. Just active inference at gmail.com. And also this is a field that you can edit if you want to add your desired contact information. It wasn't added for anyone. But if you want to put contact me on this way at this time, or if you're interested in that, like you can add that here for connecting within the cohort. And then there's that cohort three live meetings page that has the date and time of all of our meetings. And that's where the video recordings are going to be placed as well. So broadly, today we're here to go on an overview, take any introductory thoughts and questions, and also hear from each other. Like, what are we excited to learn and what is going to motivate us in this optional but extremely exciting and useful quest that we're on? So, then we will have two weeks per chapter. The chapters are not super long. So two weeks is a good amount of time to give reading and or…