Thanks, Cristóbal. I think use of the word "feeling" in a discussion of consciousness is a bit misleading. A more appropriate word, I think, is "experiencing". A RecipeExpert system would experience the passage of time, conversational interactions in English with other cognitive agents (biological or otherwise) interaction with sites on the internet, access to passive sources of information in writing, and acquisition of new knowledge for its knowledge base. Those are cognitive experiences, not emotional ones like the ones we have from our brains' biochemistry. I tried to distinguish in my article between biological aspects of consciousness and cognitive aspects of consciousness, like the ones I listed.