ix the set of chapter co-authors does not exhaust the set of significant contributors to the ideas presented. The core concepts of the CogPrime design and the underlying theory were conceived by Ben Goertzel in the period 1995-1996 when he was a Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia; but those early ideas have been elaborated and improved by many more people than can be listed here (as well as by Ben’s ongoing thinking and research). The collaborative design process ultimately resulting in CogPrime started in 1997 when Intelligenesis Corp. was formed — the Webmind AI Engine created in Intelligenesis’s research group during 1997-2001 was the predecessor to the Novamente Cognition Engine created at Novamente LLC during 2001-2008, which was the predecessor to CogPrime. Acknowledgements For sake of simplicity, this acknowledgements section is presented from the perspective of the primary author, Ben Goertzel. Ben will thus begin by expressing his thanks to his primary co-authors, Cassio Pennachin (collaborator since 1998) and Nil Geisweiller (collaborator since 2005). Without outstandingly insightful, deep-thinking colleagues like you, the ideas presented here — let alone the book itself—- would not have developed nearly as effectively as what has happened. Similar thanks also go to the other OpenCog collaborators who have co-authored various chapters of the book. Beyond the co-authors, huge gratitude must also be extended to everyone who has been involved with the OpenCog project, and/or was involved in Novamente LLC and Webmind Inc. before that. We are grateful to all of you for your collaboration and intellectual companionship! Building a thinking machine is a huge project, too big for any one human; it will take a team and I’m happy to be part of a great one. It is through the genius of human collectives, going beyond any individual human mind, that genius machines are going to be created. A tiny, incomplete sample from the long list of those