Textbook Group meeting for Parr, Pezzulo, Friston 2022 .

Hello everyone. It's the Active Inference Textbook Group. Welcome to everyone who's joining. It is Cohort 2's Meeting 1 on September 2, 2022. So, welcome everybody. Just to mention gather features and then let's just have a few minutes to say hello if you would like. On the bottom bar is where you can mute yourself or turn off your video. So that's helpful for people. On the bottom bar also there's a smiley face where you can see a raised hand and the hand raise, which you can also reach with just hitting 6, is how you have to lower it manually. But that's how we'll know that people want to speak, which is like super helpful. And moving is with the arrow keys, but everyone's figured out. If they're here, the main asynchronous tool is going to be the the platform. But first, before we go through the the platform, let's just take a few minutes and anybody who wants to can just say hello if they want. I want to ask Neil to make a few steps from the entrance to make it open. Okay. Neil. Yeah. Oh, thank you. All right. Nice. Does anybody want to just say anything? Anyone returning from the previous cohort who would just want to say anything or anything else before we go through the the platform? We launch into more of like the overview of the the platform. Someone can just speak up. They don't need to raise their hand. Ali and then anyone else. Hi, I'm Ali. I'm an independent researcher from Iran. This is the second time I'm joining the textbook cohort. The previous cohort was fascinating, in my opinion, and I hope to meet a lot more people in the next cohort. I'm looking forward to another fascinating journey together. Thanks. Thank you, Ali. Anyone else can raise their hand or give any thought. I can say hi. I'm blue. I'm also joining from the first cohort. And I will be helping sometimes when Daniel's not around. So it's nice to meet all of you guys. And I'm excited to get deeper into the material. All right. Awesome. Ragnor. And then anyone else who wants to raise their hand? Yeah. Hey, everyone. That's my first cohort, but really excited to be joining. I'm currently like a data scientist at QBio. It's a startup in San Francisco building like a digital twin of the human body. But I've always been very fascinated by the active, by active inference also read the new book, but excited to be joining the cohort and meeting other people who are passionate about a topic. Awesome. Ivan? And then anyone else who wants to raise your hand? Yeah. Hello. My name is Ivan. I'm based in Yerevan. And in the active institute, I direct another education program and here I'm in a student role. Awesome. Awesome. Ivan? And then anyone else who wants to raise your hand? Awesome. Ivan? And then anyone else who wants to raise your hand? Yeah, hello. My name is Ivan. I'm based in Yerevan. I'm an student role. Alright. Well, this is the second cohort and there's some people who are also rather rejoining this first part of the book or and or in cohort two or in cohort one part two, and the meetings are following. So if you want to stick around or if you're in both, that's totally cool. I think we're obviously just learning by doing with even the structuring. So hopefully people can start to think about active inference and how it applies to our processes and iterate and improve even within cohorts within these next several months together. So anyone can also write questions in the chat, which is the second set of button next to the people. Alright. The first part of this onboarding is going to be in the main single source of truth, which is posted in the nearby chat. So this is the document to bookmark and use and contribute to as well as any other ways that you want to be contributing like in the Institute or just in your own work. It's all good. However, you're being engaged. You're being engaged. And this is like our shared information environment. Everyone should have edit access, but this is fine time to check. We're going to go through some of the pages and how they've been used…