A tale of two densities: active inference is enactive inference

hello everyone welcome to active inference live stream number 6.1 it is October 13th 2020 whether you're a firsttime listener or not welcome to tecom tecom is an experiment in online team communication and learning related to active inference you can find us on Twitter at inference active at our Gmail address our keyb team that's public or our YouTube channel this is a recorded and an archived live stream so please provide us feedback so that we can improve our work also all backgrounds and perspectives are welcome here and in service of that remember your video etiquette M mute if there's sound in the background and raise your hand so that we'll be able to hear from everyone here we are in actim stream 6.1 and today's stream is going to go like this we're going to start out with a warm-up section where we introduce some of ourselves especially our newer participants and just have a quick check-in then we'll turn to the discussion of the paper today we'll try to cover the goal of the paper the road map how they get from A to Z go through the abstract which is how the authors represent their work in the most distilled form and then look at some of the figures see where they're going to be going with the figures what they're going to be showing and then next week in 6.2 we're going to have a lot more time for further discussion on this paper and also to dive into some of the technical details of the figures so please save and submit your questions all right here we are in the intros and check-ins for the introduction section please introduce yourself and your location just say a quick hello anything else you'd like to add and then feel free to pass it to someone else so I'm Daniel I'm in Davis California and I'll pass it to one of our firsttime participants Maas it's actually matthys Matthis pink um I'm a master student in Germany in um at the University of osnar Brook which is in lower Saxony so it's uh afternoon where I am I guess it's in the morning where you are um yeah I'm excited about participating thanks for having me great let's I will I don't know is there another person who's new here uh lee Alex maybe let's go to Lee our other new participant yeah hi um yeah I'm Lee uh I'm based in London but I'm actually studying at the uh University of York uh studying embod cognition and um yeah look really looking forward to this um I will pass on to Alejandra hello everyone um I'm again at Mexico kind of tired um last week was uh very hard but um yeah nice to be here again with you all and um pass it to um Alex uh hello everybody I'm Alex I'm an engineer basically and now also a researcher and I am situated in Moscow Russia and affiliated with uh system management school so I'm pass it to clip hi I'm John clip I'm in the Cambridge Mass with the MIT media lab I'm actually doing this at in Northern New Hampshire at my farm um and I'm very pleased to be a part of this and here to [Music] learn let's go to Alex kefir I'll pass it off to Maxwell okay hi everyone uh so I was here a couple weeks ago um I'm a philosopher I guess and sometime computational modeler at manash University and right now I'm in New York City um and I've been involved in this debate uh that's that's explored in this paper for a while so thought I would join in and I will pass it to who's left um Shannon hi I'm Shannon Crooks um I'm part of the sensory motor Neuroscience Lab at the University of California in mered but currently I'm in South Dakota um so I'll pass it to Sasha hi everybody I'm Sasha I'm based out of Davis California and I'm affiliated with University of California Davis and also um just very excited to learn and unpack some of these topics um it's been a really great uh past six or so streams so I will pass it on to Stephen [Music] uh hello yeah I've been involved in this for the last few sessions as well find it very very helpful and very interesting I'm um doing a practice-based PhD into some um processes to explore social topographies um and…