About

D. R. Dison is the founder of Artificial Intelligence University (AIU); the creator and owner of Causalontology, PrologAI, Mentova, and Konnectome; and the author of Certified 4ourth Generation Artificial Intelligence Engineer (546 pages), Nature's Cognitive Architecture (270 pages), AGI for Everyone (525 pages), and The Roadmap to AGI and ASI (464 pages).

Causalontology is the world's first synthesis of a reified, process-first causal calculus (its verbs), a continuant backbone of persisting entities (its nouns), and a realizable hinge that binds the two - one foundational, glass-box ontology, grounded in embodied, interventional learning.

PrologAI is one of the world's first complete glass-box cognitive substrates for building synthetic minds, with no neural network, no Large Language Model (LLM) and no black-box concerns; a new programming language written entirely in pure *SWI-Prolog - a base, a foundation, a substrate for anyone to build their own custom Glass-box Synthetic Mind (GSM), where every reasoning step is a named, inspectable rule and every answer comes with a justification tree you can read, uniting 48 named modes of reasoning in a single, fully inspectable architecture. (* Sociaal-Wetenschappelijke Informatica (Dutch for "Social Science Informatics"))

Mentova is the world's first Glass-box Synthetic Mind (GSM)**, written in PrologAI, to score 400/400 = 100% on the public training set of the Abstract Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence Version 1 (ARC-AGI-1) and 120/120 = 100% on the public data set of ARC-AGI-2. Every answer comes with a readable justification tree, no black box and no Large Language Model (LLM). (** Glass-box means every step can be read and audited, the opposite of a hidden black box. A Synthetic Mind means a machine built to reason, remember, and explain, rather than a statistical model that predicts text - a system that knows what it knows, knows how it knows it, and can show you the proof. Mentova is the world's first Glass-Box Synthetic Mind that only says what it can actually explain.)

Konnectome is the world's first Glass-box Synthetic Mind (GSM) to be based on the human nervous system. (Mentova was based on abstract cognitive architectures, not neuroscience.) Written in PrologAI and Causalontology 3.0.0 compliant, Konnectome is built from human brain neuroscience and the SPARCD*** Appendices of the book, "Nature's Cognitive Architecture: From Neuroscience to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)." (*** Specification, Pseudo-code, Architecture, Refinement, Completion, Demonstration)

Repositories

Causalontology

Causalontology - the verb-first ontology, built for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

The world's first reified-causation ontology standard - a verb-first, glass-box model of cause and effect, and the data-structure layer beneath PrologAI, Mentova, and Konnectome.

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PrologAI

PrologAI - a programming-language substrate for building Glass-box Synthetic Minds (GSM)

The core symbolic AI engine. 306 functional layers, 48 reasoning types, programming language substrate supporting Mentova's ARC-AGI-1 perfect score, and ARC-AGI-2 perfect score. Built entirely in pure SWI-Prolog with no machine learning, and no Large Language Model (LLM).

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Mentova

Mentova - the world's first Glass-box Synthetic Mind (GSM), scoring 100% on the ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2 public training sets

Glass-Box Synthetic Mind (GSM) written in PrologAI, hosted the ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2 climb, papers, and accomplishments. ARC-AGI-1: 400/400 = 100%, ARC-AGI-2: 120/120 = 100% solved on the public data set.

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Konnectome

Konnectome - a Glass-box Synthetic Mind (GSM) written in PrologAI, based on the book Nature's Cognitive Architecture

The world's first Glass-box Synthetic Mind (GSM) based on the human nervous system - written in PrologAI, Causalontology 3.0.0 compliant, from the book Nature's Cognitive Architecture.

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Books

Certified 4ourth Generation Artificial Intelligence Engineer

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The Certified 4ourth Generation Artificial Intelligence Engineer (C4GAIE) by D. R. Dison (546 pages). Click the cover to open the full PDF in a new browser tab.

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Nature's Cognitive Architecture

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Nature's Cognitive Architecture: From Neuroscience to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), by D. R. Dison (270 pages). Click the cover to open the full PDF in a new browser tab.

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AGI for Everyone

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AGI for Everyone: A Deep Dive into AGI (2026 Edition), by D. R. Dison (525 pages). Click the cover to open the full PDF in a new browser tab.

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The Roadmap to AGI and ASI

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The Roadmap to AGI and ASI: From Natural Intelligence to Artificial General Intelligence and Artificial Super Intelligence, by D. R. Dison (464 pages). Click the cover to open the full PDF in a new browser tab.

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Contact

D. R. Dison is the founder of Artificial Intelligence University (AIU); the creator and owner of Causalontology, PrologAI, Mentova, and Konnectome; and the author of Certified 4ourth Generation Artificial Intelligence Engineer (546 pages), Nature's Cognitive Architecture (270 pages), AGI for Everyone (525 pages), and The Roadmap to AGI and ASI (464 pages).

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