1. A computer-based system for developing and storing a data set representative of an emergent thought-like concept in a simulation of consciousness over a period of time, comprising: a first simulated artificial neural network having a particular knowledge domain established therein as a result of prior training of the neural network in accordance with predefined constraints; means for repetitively perturbing the first simulated artificial neural network to repetitively degrade the operation thereof and to thereby effect ongoing production thereby of outputs therefrom in a process tantamount to stream of consciousness associated with the particular knowledge domain of the first simulated artificial neural network; a second simulated artificial neural network attentive to the outputs of the first artificial neural network as they are produced in response to the perturbations of the first artificial neural network in a process tantamount to awareness of stream of consciousness, said second simulated artificial neural network having an established knowledge domain and operating in accordance therewith to regulate said means for repetitively perturbing the first neural network and the ongoing perturbations in the first simulated artificial neural network, and an archive to retain at least a subset of the set of ongoing outputs from the first simulated artificial neural network over a period of time the retained subset of ongoing outputs from the first simulated artificial neural network defining a data set developed over such period of time and being tantamount to an emergent thought-like concept developed over such period of time.