“an artificial brain can be implemented in software”
I have never understood what underlies this article of faith, and I know more about all the relevant technical disciplines than your average overeducated schmuck. Could you indulge my incomprehension by explaining it to me as though I just fell off the turnip truck?
Not sure that’s merely a “bonus”: there’s a lot of literature suggesting a link between immune system activity and affective states, and if we take the somatic marker hypothesis seriously this is likely where the real action is.
e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2006.06.006