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 |