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From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: Books on philosophy of AI
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In article <OZ.95Feb12215947@nexus.yorku.ca> oz@nexus.yorku.ca (ozan s. yigit) writes:

>may also want to add:

[3 philosophy books]

>for required [heh] background on computation:
>
>	Marvin L. Minsky
>	Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines
>	Prentice-Hall, 1967

Yes, I've met many people who said they had no trouble with it, even
in high school.  It might need a little more about
complexity theory. 

Trouble is, it's almost impossible to find because Prentice-Hall
left it out of their catalog for so long that it went out of print. 

I just got the copyright back from them, and will make it available
again, once I get it into digital form (yes, it was done optically in
1967, arrgh).
