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This paper would not have been written without the support and assistance of a large number of people whose names I unfortunately failed to accumulate in a single location. At the least I would like to thank Peter Voss, Ben Goertzel, and Carl Feynman for discussing some of the ideas found in this paper. Any minor blemishes remaining in this document are, of course, my fault. (Any major hideous errors or gaping logical flaws were probably smuggled in while I wasn't looking.) Without the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, this paper would not exist. To all the donors, supporters, and volunteers of the Singularity Institute, my deepest thanks, but we're not finished with you yet. We still need to build an AI, and for that to happen, we need a lot more of you.
I apologize to the horde of authors whom I have inevitably slighted by failing to credit them for originating an idea or argument inadvertently duplicated in this paper; the body of literature in cognitive science is too large for any one person to be personally familiar with more than an infinitesimal fraction. In particular, as I was editing a draft of this paper, I discovered the paper "Perceptual Symbol Systems" by Lawrence Barsalou [Barsalou99], presenting a model in which concepts reify perceptual experiences and bind to perceptual imagery, and in which combinatorial concept structures create complex depictive mental imagery. Barsalou should receive full credit for first publication of this idea, which is one of the major theoretical foundations of DGI.
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