[victorasao]

Agree, emotions I guess are more like weights or gradients of subconscious patterns. As from real vs digital I think somehow in the lines of Daniel Dennett. This is from his book " From Bacteria to Bach and back."

“The fundamental architecture of animal brains (including human brains) is probably composed of Bayesian networks that are highly competent expectation-generators that don’t have to comprehend what they are doing. Comprehension—our kind of comprehension—is only made possible by the arrival on the scene quite recently of a new kind of evolutionary replicator—culturally transmitted informational entities: memes."