Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Agents and Emergence before it was popular.

This book by one of the most important pioneers in artificial intelligence was ahead of its time.It deals with a society of agents that interact with each other, organize into hierarchies and networks, and give rise to "emergent" properties (in Minsky's view, the mind).The ideas in this book were highly influential in artificial intelligence, computer science, the philosophy of mind, and psychology.The book may seem a "popular" exposition and it was geared, in a sense, to be so. However, the fundamental underlying ideas are extremely important to a variety of fields and have made a substantial impact.I recommend this book to anyone interested in artificial intelligence, computer science or emergent phenomena.