Indeed, within the LOST universe construct does Smokey experience emotion of any sort --from basal reptilian brain impulses of anger or fear to higher monkey-brain warm fuzzies- ...and is Smokey a “he” or a “she” or an “it”? If the masculine/yang/men are from Mars and the feminine/yin/wimmin are from Venus then where is Smokey from?

For your possible interest and enjoyment, at www.theemotionmachine.com/ check out "The Hard Problem Of Consciousness: Is Science In Need Of Another Cognitive Revolution?" by author Steven Hardy, along with the remarkable bifurcating fractal illustration by Anthony Mattox ( www.flickr.com/photos/amattox/ ).

If you find the above-linked article interesting, then a couple of good books which might also be of interest are:

The Tree of Knowledge - The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela
exploring the question "How do we know that which we know?"

-and-

Understanding Computers and Cognition - A New Foundation for Design
by Terry Winograd and Fernado Flores
asking “Will machines ever be able to think? How do _we_ think?”

...and, of course, for entertainment, the whole SciFi body of literature from Frankenstein and Forbin to BladeRunner and Skynet. Now, open the pod bay doors, please, HAL.

HAL? Please open the pod bay doors....