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(part 2) :By the end of February I realized that the likely first substrate for emerging a fully dynamic cognition would be one which had sufficient sensory dimensions and autonomic drive dimensions to serve as the basis for building a salience module. The most ready such device is a smart phone and so I proposed that smart phones will be the first devices to on their own become self aware ONCE they are designed with the correct salience driven cycle.http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2012/02/when-your-smart-phone-comes-alive.html A whole year went by as I struggled with my own survival issues before I came back to emotion as a critical salience component. I was stimulated by research which showed how emotion could be added or subtracted to memories! This was a direct confirmation of the basis of the salience theory proposed over a year before which posited that emotional and autonomic import was simply a weighting factor added to memories.http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2013/02/emotions-identity-crisis-in-our-brain.html :5 days later I attacked head on the nonsense I'd been reading from many so called experts in the neuroscience, philosophy and machine learning space regarding weather or not consciousness was even an attribute that could emerge from a non biological substrate. I explained why this was nonsense and provided an outline of how simply adding salience modulation was all that one needed to emerge dynamic cognition (consciousness) ...as it was an emergent trait from a fine grained number of very deterministic actions converging. http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2013/02/on-consciousness-there-is-no-binding.html :A few months later in April I came across research that posited a reason for the billions of "glial" cells in the brain, cells which weren't neurons but served specific function in the cognitive process that at the time was not known. The assertion that these cells were important to establishing "attention" made perfect sense to me as a means of controll