> assigning sensory data or semantic emotional data to gauge the sentiment or 'feeling' such a memory could or should elicit This may not be necessary. It is p

> assigning sensory data or semantic emotional data to gauge the sentiment or 'feeling' such a memory could or should elicit This may not be necessary. It is pretty fundamental in humans, because factual, ethological decision making apparently needs an emotional drive to actually act on a decision, irregardless of the depth of reasoning that ranks optimality of options (this was found by Damasio, I believe). Those who can reason quite well, but suffer from a disconnection to the lymbic system - so they miss a "trigger" "shaking" them in front of the different options - cannot practically decide. But for a Decision Support System, what the operator needs is a lucid, informed consultant to query about the options. The decision remains with the operator. Machines can act out of a function. There is no necessary need in a machine to divide "quick synthetic assessment" and "explicit analytical assessment", if in theory the machine has enough computation abilities to stick to the latter, and if the latter is what we want - as we want reliability. One thing is the implementation of Intelligence, another is emulation (of "Also Potentially Intelligent Systems").