Emotional response is indeed an artifact of the spiritual equation. The answer to your question, Steve, is that emotional response is intricately connected to mental imagery of present and past vectors, imagined scenes, aesthetic consideration, and individual decision points about what is true and what will be. The origin of all these things is not mechanical. Obviously the nervous system is intimately connected as well. But when you get down to sources you run out of mechanical links.

Amos, I often think we see eye to eye, sort of. But, in this case, I seriously need a translator's note. :-(