pFrom being drafted into the military during the Vietnam war to solving the so-called hard problem of consciousness; from playing in chess tournaments to working on space robots for interplanetary spacecraft; from attending public schools in John Steinbecks hometown to teaching computer science at a major university; from riding the big surf at Waimea Bay to inventing the worlds fastest sorting algorithm; from racing model cars as a teenager to mentoring teenagers on high school robotics teams: Dr. Wagners debut book, twenty years in the making, chronicles his struggle to live meaningfully in a quest for a coherent understanding of the human condition./pp... an interesting life full of amazing experience ... indeed an extraordinary man. I am honored to be his friend. He has been a great inspiration and motivation to my son, Kai, and myself. --Ron Van Clief, the Black Dragon/p