Thoughts from four decades on the subject of artificial beings with consciousness and thus on the question of what humans can find out about themselves beyond metaphysics.

It turns out in this matter that the solution to the problem is to implement the problem.

The book contains the core theory from 1991 on the construction principles of a "Mr. Data" (the android from the sci-fi series Star Trek: The Next Generation). The theory was the subject of a discussion with Valentin Braitenberg at the Max-Planck-Institute in Tübingen, Germany.

The author: Born 1953 in Berne, Switzerland. Doctorate in medicine (1984). Studied philosophy (1986-1989). Specialist in AI and software development. Head of the software methodology division of a high-tech company in Switzerland. Senior Consultant. Since 2002 working as a psychiatrist.