Schedule
Here is the meeting schedule for the Making Minds Reading Group (MMRG).
For more details regarding nominating and voting for books to read for the next meeting, look for #mmrg in the Amii Slack.
| Date |
Time and Place |
Book |
Link(s) |
Friday
December 1, 2023 |
4pm MST
CSC 2-49 |
The Mind is Flat
Nick Chater |
Goodreads
|
Friday
October 27, 2023 |
4pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
Advice to a Young Scientist
Peter Medawar |
Goodreads
|
Friday
September 29, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
The Mountain in the Sea
Ray Nayler |
Goodreads
|
Friday
September 1, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are
Frans De Waal |
Goodreads
|
Friday
July 28, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
Tim Urban |
Goodreads
|
Friday
June 30, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace
of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Geoffrey West |
Goodreads
|
Friday
May 26, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam |
Goodreads
|
Friday
April 28, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
All Systems Red
Martha Wells |
Goodreads
|
Friday
March 31, 2023 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii coworking space |
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Meghan O'Gieblyn |
Goodreads
|
Friday
February 24, 2023 |
3:30pm MST
Amii coworking space |
Math Without Numbers
Milo Beckman |
Goodreads
|
Thursday
January 26, 2023 |
3:30pm MST
Amii coworking space |
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Jon Gertner |
Goodreads
|
Friday
December 30, 2022 |
4pm MST
Meet |
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl |
Goodreads
|
Friday
November 25, 2022 |
4pm MST
Heritage Lounge + Meet |
The Philosophical Baby
Alison Gopnik |
Goodreads
|
Friday
October 28, 2022 |
4pm MDT
Heritage Lounge + Meet |
The Character of Physical Law
Richard Feynman |
Goodreads
|
Thursday
September 29, 2022 |
4pm MDT
Meet |
Free-reading month
|
Friday
August 26, 2022 |
2pm MDT
Meet |
Exhalation: Stories
Ted Chiang |
Goodreads
|
Friday
July 29, 2022 |
2pm MDT
Meet |
Algorithms Are Not Enough: Creating General Artificial Intelligence
Herbert L. Roitblat |
Goodreads
|
Thursday
June 30, 2022 |
4pm MDT
Meet |
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
Goodreads
|
Friday
June 3, 2022 |
4pm MDT
Meet |
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Lori Gottlieb |
Goodreads
|
Friday
April 29, 2022 |
4pm MDT
Meet |
The Sciences of the Artificial
Herbert Simon |
Goodreads
|
Friday
March 25, 2022 |
4pm MDT
Meet |
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman |
Goodreads
|
Friday
February 25, 2022 |
4pm MST
Meet |
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn |
Goodreads
|
Friday
January 28, 2022 |
4pm MST
Meet |
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn |
Goodreads
|
Friday
December 31, 2021 |
4pm MST
Meet |
Free reading month!
|
Friday
November 26, 2021 |
4pm MST
Meet |
What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition
Samuel Gershman |
Goodreads
|
Friday
October 29, 2021 |
4pm MDT
Meet |
On Growth and Form
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson |
Goodreads
|
Friday
September 24, 2021 |
11am MDT
Meet |
Free reading month!
|
Friday
August 27, 2021 |
11am MDT
Meet |
Inter-disciplinary basics
Various authors |
Some resources
|
Friday
July 30, 2021 |
11am MDT
Meet |
The Other Brain
Douglas Fields |
Goodreads
|
Friday
June 25, 2021 |
11am MDT
Meet |
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman |
Goodreads
|
Monday
May 31, 2021 |
10am MDT
Meet |
My Octopus Teacher
Documentary |
Netflix
|
Friday
April 30, 2021 |
11am MDT
Meet |
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins |
Goodreads
Amazon
|
Friday
March 26, 2021 |
3:30pm MDT
Meet |
Free reading month!
|
Friday
February 26, 2021 |
3:30pm MST
Meet |
The Alignment Problem, The Race after Technology
Brian Christian, Ruha Benjamin |
Wednesday
January 20, 2021 |
3:30pm MST
Meet |
Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Peter Godfrey-Smith |
Wednesday
December 30, 2020 |
3:30pm MST
Meet |
The New Science of the Mind
Mark Rowlands |
Friday
November 27, 2020 |
3:30pm MST
Meet |
How Emotions are Made
Lisa Feldman Barrett |
Friday
October 30, 2020 |
3pm MDT
Meet |
Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
Peter M. Hoffmann |
Friday
October 2, 2020 |
3:30pm MDT
Meet |
The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Joseph LeDoux |
Friday
August 28, 2020 |
3pm MDT
Meet |
Babies
Netflix docu-series |
Netflix
|
Friday
July 31, 2020 |
11am MDT
Meet |
The Mind: Explained
Netflix docu-series |
Netflix
|
Friday
June 26, 2020 |
11am MDT
Meet |
Animal Intelligence' episode, 'Parroting Probabilities' podcast
Netflix, Amalia Bastos |
Netflix
Spotify
|
Friday
May 22, 2020 |
3:30pm MDT
Meet |
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
Paul Bloom |
Friday
February 28, 2020 |
3:30pm MST
Heritage Lounge |
Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Andy Clark |
Friday
January 24, 2020 |
3:30pm MST
Heritage Lounge |
The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth |
Friday
December 6, 2019 |
3pm MST
Amii Office |
The Puzzle Instinct
Marcel Danesi |
Friday
November 1, 2019 |
3pm MST
Heritage Lounge |
Invisible Women
Carloine Criado-Pérez |
Friday
September 27, 2019 |
3:30pm MDT
CSC 3-33 |
On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins |
Friday
August 30, 2019 |
3:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang |
Friday
August 9, 2019 |
3:30pm MDT
Amii Office |
Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
Barbara Tversky |
Thursday
June 27, 2019 |
2:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
The Stories of Ibis
Ted Chiang |
Thursday
May 30, 2019 |
2:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49 |
Action in Perception
Alva Noe |
Friday
April 26, 2019 |
3:30pm MDT
Heritage Lounge |
Made-Up Minds
Gary Drescher |
Friday
March 29, 2019 |
3:30pm MDT
Heritage Lounge |
Evolution for Everyone
David Sloan Wilson |
Friday
February 22, 2019 |
3:30pm MST
Heritage Lounge |
Radical Embodied Cognitive Science
Anthony Chemero |
Friday
January 18, 2019 |
3:30pm MST
Heritage Lounge |
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Dean Buonomano |
Friday
December 14, 2018 |
3:30pm MST
Heritage Lounge |
The Book of Why
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie |
Friday
November 16, 2018 |
3:30pm MST
ATH 3-32 |
The Scientist in the Crib, What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
Alison Gopnik |
Friday
October 19, 2018 |
3:30pm MDT
ATH 3-32 |
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
Daniel Chamovitz |
Friday
September 14, 2018 |
3:30pm MDT
Heritage Lounge |
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil |