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
April 29, 20224pm MDT
MeetThe Sciences of the Artificial
Herbert Simon
Goodreads
Friday
March 25, 20224pm MDT
MeetA Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information
Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman
Goodreads
Friday
February 25, 20224pm MST
MeetThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn
Goodreads
Friday
January 28, 20224pm MST
MeetThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn
Goodreads
Friday
December 31, 20214pm MST
MeetFree reading month!
Friday
November 26, 20214pm MST
MeetWhat Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition
Samuel Gershman
Goodreads
Friday
October 29, 20214pm MDT
MeetOn Growth and Form
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Goodreads
Friday
September 24, 202111am MDT
MeetFree reading month!
Friday
August 27, 202111am MDT
MeetInter-disciplinary basics
Various authors
Some resources
Friday
July 30, 202111am MDT
MeetThe Other Brain
Douglas Fields
Goodreads
Friday
June 25, 202111am MDT
MeetThinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Goodreads
Monday
May 31, 202110am MDT
MeetMy Octopus Teacher
Documentary
Netflix
Friday
April 30, 202111am MDT
MeetA Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins
Goodreads
Amazon
Friday
March 26, 20213:30pm MDT
MeetFree reading month!
Friday
February 26, 20213:30pm MST
MeetThe Alignment Problem, The Race after Technology
Brian Christian, Ruha Benjamin
Wednesday
January 20, 20213:30pm MST
MeetTheory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Wednesday
December 30, 20203:30pm MST
MeetThe New Science of the Mind
Mark Rowlands
Friday
November 27, 20203:30pm MST
MeetHow Emotions are Made
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Friday
October 30, 20203pm MDT
MeetLife’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
Peter M. Hoffmann
Friday
October 2, 20203:30pm MDT
MeetThe Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Joseph LeDoux
Friday
August 28, 20203pm MDT
MeetBabies
Netflix docu-series
Netflix
Friday
July 31, 202011am MDT
MeetThe Mind: Explained
Netflix docu-series
Netflix
Friday
June 26, 202011am MDT
MeetAnimal Intelligence' episode, 'Parroting Probabilities' podcast
Netflix, Amalia Bastos
Netflix
Spotify
Friday
May 22, 20203:30pm MDT
MeetHow Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
Paul Bloom
Friday
February 28, 20203:30pm MST
Heritage LoungeSurfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Andy Clark
Friday
January 24, 20203:30pm MST
Heritage LoungeThe Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth
Friday
December 6, 20193pm MST
Amii OfficeThe Puzzle Instinct
Marcel Danesi
Friday
November 1, 20193pm MST
Heritage LoungeInvisible Women
Carloine Criado-Pérez
Friday
September 27, 20193:30pm MDT
CSC 3-33On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins
Friday
August 30, 20193:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang
Friday
August 9, 20193:30pm MDT
Amii OfficeMind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
Barbara Tversky
Thursday
June 27, 20192:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49The Stories of Ibis
Ted Chiang
Thursday
May 30, 20192:30pm MDT
CSC 2-49Action in Perception
Alva Noe
Friday
April 26, 20193:30pm MDT
Heritage LoungeMade-Up Minds
Gary Drescher
Friday
March 29, 20193:30pm MDT
Heritage LoungeEvolution for Everyone
David Sloan Wilson
Friday
February 22, 20193:30pm MST
Heritage LoungeRadical Embodied Cognitive Science
Anthony Chemero
Friday
January 18, 20193:30pm MST
Heritage LoungeYour Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Dean Buonomano
Friday
December 14, 20183:30pm MST
Heritage LoungeThe Book of Why
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
Friday
November 16, 20183:30pm MST
ATH 3-32The Scientist in the Crib, What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
Alison Gopnik
Friday
October 19, 20183:30pm MDT
ATH 3-32What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
Daniel Chamovitz
Friday
September 14, 20183:30pm MDT
Heritage LoungeWeapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil