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[ST:TNG] Is Data's desire to become and feel more human part of his explicit programing, or an indigenous development of a sufficiently-advanced positronic brain?
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Explicit. Soong attempted to make a human-like Android right out the bat, and ended up with the Lore. Then he constructed Data so that he could naturally mature to a point where he could accept emotions without going crazy.