A variational approach to scripts

all right i think we're live hello everyone welcome to the active inference live stream my name is daniel friedman it is december 2nd 2020 and i am looking forward to this discussion welcome to team com team com is an experiment in online team communication learning and practice related to active inference you can find out about us at our website activeinference.org on twitter at our gmail account our youtube channel or our public key base team and username this is a recorded and an archived live stream so please provide us with feedback so that we can improve on our work all backgrounds and perspectives are welcome here and as far as video etiquette for live streams goes remember to mute if there's noise in your background raise your hand so that we can hear from everybody and use respectful speech behavior also just as far as schedules go for the rest of 2020 we're going to have four meetings they are going to be on december 8th and 15th discussing this paper that i'm going to talk about right now a variational approach to scripts and then on december 22nd and december 29th we will be in active stream 11 and we will read a more mathematical paper called sophisticated effective inference simulating anticipatory effective dynamics of the imagining future so this is going to be the last four meetings of active stream for 2020 in december two on this paper two on the next paper we have a lot planned for 2021 so if you're interested in participating in 2021 in any way definitely contact us if you want to and we also look forward to doing a few new kinds of events so if you have an idea for an event or for a collaboration that we could do with activestream that'd be pretty cool today in active stream number 10.0 finally getting up there in the double digits the goal will be to set the context for the next two weeks of discussion with everybody who wants to which is going to be 10.1 and 10.2 the paper we're going to be discussing is called a variational approach to scripts by albarazen at all on 629 2020 on psi archive this video as all the dot zeros are is just an introduction or a context for some of these ideas it isn't a review or a meta-analysis or a final word and i'll really just be trying to contextualize some of the ideas and vocabulary of the paper so the goal would be if you're in the free energy principle or active inference research community this is going to be maybe a chance to learn something new about scripts certainly it was for me and then maybe you're more familiar with scripts or social scripts theory at which point this hopefully would be an inter interesting introduction into thinking about active inference so it is always going to be bi-directional like that and the punch line of this paper if i could summarize it as such would be active inference can unify different conceptions of this script concept leading to new avenues and approaches for research in fields such as social behavior criminology and sexology yep all of those are fields in section 9.0 first we're going to go through the keywords of the paper then go through the aims and claims abstract and roadmap of the paper which are going to tell us a lot about how the authors lay out their argument as well as structure what it is that they're trying to do in section c we will go to types and uses of scripts and uh draw on some quotations from the authors and then just look at the two figures briefly to understand what they might be representing or doing in the paper and in 10.1 and 10.2 which are the up to up to coming weeks we will be discussing this paper so save and submit your questions get in touch if you want to participate and anyone is welcome to join first we're going to talk about keywords the keywords of this paper are as follows first is active inference which is great we always like to see that as a keyword as well as the free energy principle so active inference is about the fusion of action and inference it brings together fields like…