Some cognitive neuroscientists and philosophers of mind (such as Daniel Dennett) argue that artificial intelligence will contribute to self-knowledge, definitively unraveling the age-old enigma of human consciousness. This could become possible thanks to the mirroring of the conscious Ego in digital processes and algorithms that are increasingly refined and increasingly similar to the human mind. It is objected that artificial intelligence – at least for the moment – is devoid of both animal life and self-consciousness and intellectual intuition, and it takes up Plato’s Alcibiades Greater (as Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot have done) to show that the best self-knowledge occurs only in the mirroring of the soul in another soul, that is, in something (or someone, i. e. Socrates’soul) really similar to oneself.