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There is no polite way to say this. The author is a crackpot. Reading the materials he provides on his website, an astute reader will notice several things. Firstly, this person doesn't know how to design software at all. He also presumes that his reader knows even less than he does. The "AI" he proposes is nothing more than a basic for(;;) loop. (One of the primitive constructs provided by C, C++, Java and their dirivitives...). He is aware of some of the limititations of his design but is unaware of their obvious (to any intermediate-level programmer) work-arounds. Secondly, while he is happy to put lavish names, such as "Sensorium", on empty or nearly empty functions, he seems to be completely oblivious to the real issues a succesful AI mind must address.
He throws about refferances to concepts in the AI and futurist community such as the technological singularity but fails to demonstrate any understanding of what they mean. He claims that his design solves the AI problem when, infact, it hardly does anything at all.
He claims that his system is suitable for use in robotics, yet he has done no orrigional experamentation.
He continues to troll the usenet (sending between 5-7 messages to every AI and transhumanism related newsgroup per month) pushing his book and his lame ideas.. (If his ideas had even a tenth the merit he claims he would be world-famous...)
I am an AI enthuseast myself and hope to, oneday, publish my own work on the subject. (you can find some of my writings on my website). I do not have the audacity to claim that my work is yet worth anything because I have not yet made much progress. In general, you should stay away from all books on AI unless they are based on actual work that has been done in the field. Work, in this case, being either hard research on biological systems or software development efforts that have shown some type of results.