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This document is a book written by Ben Goertzel about Engineering General Intelligence. In it, he outlines a practical approach to creating software systems with general intelligence at the human level and beyond. The focus of the first part of the book is on critical conceptual issues related to the nature of intelligence and mind. It also sketches the broad outlines of a novel, integrative architecture for Artificial General Intelligence called CogPrime, and describes an approach for giving an AGI system appropriate experience so that it can develop its own smarts, creativity and wisdom through its own experience. The book dedicates to Goertzel's grandfather who was also a deep thinker and excellent scientist.