As far as this being an introduction, in my mind that makes it worse. Not to be rude, but you sren't writing a book (unless you are), and even if you were, unless you've done far more study on the subject than it appears, you are in no way qualified to write a book on the subject.
Which is why I didn't intend to write a book on said subject.

Keep in mind that most of us reading your post do not have the same interest in this that you do, and we don't need all of this information. Better to give us too little information and leave us wanting more and discussing than give too much and discourage posters from even reading your article.
Point taken.

As far as reactions, I know that I for one have neither the time, nor the motivation to sit down and read this. I wouldn't have minded debating it had I been given a much smaller portion of text, but the amount posted put me off before I even knew what the subject was. If I wanted to read a book, I'd read a book. AI is about discussion, and your excessively long post discourages people from even reading, much less responding.
Very well then.