Under Consideration

Item Author(s) Link Nominator
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth Apostolos Doxiadis Goodreads Vlad Tkachuk
Structures, Or Why Things Don't Fall Down J. E. Gordon Goodreads Vlad Tkachuk
Confessions of a Philosopher Bryan Magee Goodreads Vlad Tkachuk
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves Eric R. Kandel Goodreads Gautham Vasan
New Essays on Human Understanding Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Goodreads Kamran Janjua

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
March 22, 2024
4pm MDT
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[Encore] A Brief History of Intelligence
Max Solomon Bennett
Goodreads
Friday
March 1, 2024
4pm MST
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A Brief History of Intelligence
Max Solomon Bennett
Goodreads
Friday
January 26, 2024
4pm MST
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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
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The Mind is Flat
Nick Chater
Goodreads
Friday
October 27, 2023
4pm MDT
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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
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On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins
Friday
August 30, 2019
3:30pm MDT
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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
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The Stories of Ibis
Ted Chiang
Thursday
May 30, 2019
2:30pm MDT
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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