What you're describing sounds a lot like a statistically trained system. "until we understand how that information is encoded in our own minds, getting a machi

What you're describing sounds a lot like a statistically trained system. "until we understand how that information is encoded in our own minds, getting a machine to truly understand it the same way will be elusive." Here's a (fairly convincing imo) discussion as applied to language: http://norvig.com/chomsky.html http://norvig.com/chomsky.html Further, I think human emotions are pretty transparent -- e.g. why might people lust after high calorie foods? The timeline is probably far shorter than you are describing here.