Under Consideration

Item Author(s) Link Nominator
The Visual World of Shadows Roberto Casati, Patrick Cavanagh Goodreads Abbas Masoumzadeh
How Life Works: "Agency" chapter Philip Ball Goodreads Joseph Modayil
The Computer and the Brain John von Neumann Goodreads Abhishek Naik

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
September 27, 2024		 3:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49		 The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins		 Goodreads
Friday
August 30, 2024		 3:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49		 Dogs of War
Adrian Tchaikovsky		 Goodreads
Friday
July 26, 2024		 3:30pm MDT
Heritage Lounge		 How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson		 Goodreads
Friday
June 28, 2024		 3:30pm MDT
UofA Quad		 I, Robot
Isaac Asimov		 Goodreads
Friday
May 31, 2024		 11am MDT
Meet		 The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves.
Eric R. Kandel		 Goodreads
Monday
April 29, 2024		 11am MDT
Meet		 The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Fei Fei Li		 Goodreads
Friday
March 22, 2024		 4pm MDT
CSC 2-49		 [Encore] A Brief History of Intelligence
Max Solomon Bennett		 Goodreads
Friday
March 1, 2024		 4pm MST
CSC 2-49		 A Brief History of Intelligence
Max Solomon Bennett		 Goodreads
Friday
January 26, 2024		 4pm MST
CSC 2-49		 The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Joseph E. LeDoux		 Goodreads
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


MMRG was started in 2008 by Elliot Ludvig and others. The current organizer is Vlad Tkachuk, who took over from Abhishek Naik in Aug 2024, who in turn took over from Matt Schlegel in March 2021. The pre-2018 reading list can be found here.