The purpose of this book is to reflect on a variety of common questions. Common, but difficult questions. What is the self? What does it mean to be conscious? What is morality made of? Is there logic in morality? Can reason alone justify moral action? To answer such questions, this book does three things. To begin, it examines what the human mind is and what it is not. Then it examines how one might construct a moral system grounded only in observation and reason. Lastly, it examines by what means one may employ the mind towards morality.
Martijn Janssen was born in the Netherlands in 1996 and was diagnosed to be autistic there. In 2009, his family moved to Switzerland, where he attended bilingual German-English schools. He obtained a bachelor at Harvard Extension School in 2020 and is currently working on an online Master of Science degree at Edinburgh University.