Textbook Group meeting for Parr, Pezzulo, Friston 2022 .

So, okay. Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining this second meeting of the second cohort of the Active Inference textbook group, where we're going to be discussing chapter one. Today is September 9th, 2022. So I'll minimize this. And you guys can click on my screen and that will show you the full screen of what I am presenting. So what we'll do in the live meetings here for the next two and a half months or so is totally going to be driven by the material that's in the chapters and in the appendices. So we're going to go to the questions page and we're going to look at the questions that have been asked for that week for that theme. And we're just going to start with the most upvoted questions. So here you can upload a question like this by clicking thumbs up. So we will start with the most upvoted questions. And then we can take notes here and the discourse in this answers and discourse. And if you just click on that, it opens this page and anybody is free to write here. And after addressing the questions, which is probably going to be most of the time, and discussing them, then we will move on to maybe look at the ideas more broadly over here. So we don't really have too many questions. If anybody wants to jump in and write a question, we did send an email reminder that because this was pretty empty over the course of the week. But hopefully thinking by writing in this way will be a structure where we'll be able to hear everyone's perspective and leave the the platform in a better place than we found it. So if anybody wants to jump in and write additional questions in the the platform, now would be a good time. And then after looking at the questions, we will pull back and focus a little bit more broadly. So maybe we'll go over here to touch on the ideas and insights of the chapter, and then ideas for that week. And then in the last minutes, we can just see if there's been any changes to the project ideas and start to see what people are excited about applying active inference to. And then we will end at the top of the hour. So let's just head over to the questions, the cohort two questions page, and take a couple minutes to put some questions in here. So just so you guys know, control plus and control minus are good ways to scroll in and out to get like the right view of the screen. And then you can hide this little textbook bar over here. So I'm going to hide that and just give everybody maybe like five minutes to put in a question or something that would maybe like to discuss from chapter one of the textbook. So Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So maybe we could just take like one more minute and wrap up these questions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to say like to everyone at any point that there's always the affordance of just listening and also of just rewatching this recording. There's also the affordance in gather to raise your hand. Let's see if I can show where that is. It's been a long time. Over here. Over here. There it is down at the bottom. So there's this raise hand feature and lower hand. Yeah. Let's see. Yeah. Okay. Let's see. And then if you would, you can raise your hand if you would like to share just on that particular question. We're going to have them up in the the platform. And you can also pull up the answers in the discourse and that will pull up the focus view of the question. And everybody is free to collaboratively like edit the answers here in the discourse. It's better to really add and be noisy, even if it's just like a bullet point list or an incomplete thought, or if there's incoherence or if it's contradictory, those are all fine. It just adds information and perspective on the question. So, yeah, we're going to open up each question, the answers in the discourse and read what has been read and already contributed in the answers. And then also people want to share other thoughts that they're having. That's awesome. And then if anybody also just…