I am: A blueprint for sentience is the latest book by Krys Norman. It describes a pragmatic series of explanations and definitions for humanity's interpretation of consciousness, sense of self, soul, religion and even art. It then goes to show how this can be created within electronic devices. This is the basis for what is known as General Artificial Intelligence. Primary Care Communications are currently developing the algorithms to realize this.
A link to excerpts from the book can be found here: