Textbook Group meeting for Parr, Pezzulo, Friston 2022 .

hello everyone thank you for joining this is the recorded and live onboarding session for the first cohort of the active inference textbook group and this session is going to cover many of the sections of our the platform and hopefully resolve your uncertainty about participating in different aspects of the textbook group so there will be some presentations but also a ton of time for questions so feel free to use the chat box on the bottom right hand side to add any questions um hello welcome feel free to use the chat box on the bottom right side to add any questions and also feel free to raise your hands and then we'll be able to see that hand raised if you'd like to ask your question but also it could be really helpful just to add it in the chat during this presentation so you can click on the screen that's being shared to see it zoomed in and so you should be able to see my info screen and some clicks all right so welcome everybody to the actin flap whether it's your first time participating in actin flab or in anything related to active inference welcome hope that this is like a space where we can really have some amazing things happen this the platform that we're all looking at and that we all have access to is our shared epistemic niche and so you can of course have your own notes and own documents but this is our shared collaborative niche we are working through the textbook and learning active inference this recent textbook by par pizzulo in fristen and by right clicking you can download the document full or the one where the document pages and the book pages are aligned just in case you wanted to download it and it's also awesome that it's an open source textbook if you ever have any questions about anything related to participating in the textbook group or in any aspect of actin flab then activeinference.gmail.com a good email address to contact okay so i'm gonna in the sidebar go to this second one rules and also this sidebar can be shown or hidden with the two arrows so first we'll go over some of the rules and also with the understanding that this is an evolving area and it's our first cohort so just super appreciative and it's really awesome for those for many different places and stages who have stepped up to engage in this way and we stipulate that by engaging with this the platform and in the live meetings so not in private conversations not in your own private documents but within the shared spaces that are synchronous and asynchronous that we're creating together we're in a participatory open science space and that means that no proprietary or inappropriate information will be shared and that more positively any ideas and writing and contributions that are shared in this shared the platform or during these recorded sessions that we'll have these are understood to be declared as creative commons ccby attribution so state otherwise or don't say it if it's different because that's how it's going to be understood in the comments and then of course if somebody's like interested in this area of attribution and all of this in in online spaces in participatory communities that's an important area during the course of the textbook group we are students so we're interacting here as individuals on the path of learning and applying so some of us might be interested in research as well and there will be hopefully a ton of time to connect and find those collaborations but we're going to keep the regime of attention on the learning the familiarity accessibility and competency of active inference as it is in that textbook that doesn't mean it's going to be the only document that we look at other resources are going to come into play but it's about learning not research and we're interested in this textbook that's what's bringing us together and please be an engaged learner however that means for you so whether you're checking in once in a while and just asking some questions here and there adding a comment like by selecting text and then on the right side hitting…