# Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Short one-page essays on intelligence as an emergent property of many simple agents, recommended as AI fundamentals reading. One reader says it has aged well to about 80%.

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- [Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter](https://hackerapproved.com/p/g-del-escher-bach.md): 47 recommend
- [Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman](https://hackerapproved.com/p/thinking-fast-and-slow.md): 17 recommend
- [Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows](https://hackerapproved.com/p/thinking-in-systems.md): 17 recommend
- [The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins](https://hackerapproved.com/p/selfish-gene.md): 14 recommend
- [Cosmos by Carl Sagan](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cosmos.md): 13 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0330300393?tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/130825/9780330300391) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky", https://hackerapproved.com/p/society-of-mind/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).