1. An apparatus to make machines and devices conscious and self-aware comprising: a sensorium comprising a plurality of sensors, each of the sensors having a sensor output; a plurality of neuronal logic units comprising a stack of integrated circuit chip layers that are interconnected by through silicon vias; each neuronal logic unit comprising a column of artificial neurons; wherein the respective integrated circuit chip layers are separately devoted to the function of sensor inputs, word input, voting, communication, memory, and menu inputs; each of the artificial neurons synaptically interconnected within the column by one or more synapses that are configured to vary the strength of a connection between the artificial neurons based on a predetermined or learned weight received from a cerebral processor, a direct connection between each of the sensor outputs within the machine or device and a corresponding neuronal logic unit; the neuronal logic units configured to cluster and activate in response to the identification of an object, event, or behavior; wherein the clustered neuronal logic units are interconnected and configured to jointly make choices on a winner takes all basis from a menu of choices provided by a host computational resource and wherein the connection between each sensor and the neural logic can only be made when enabled by the host computational resource.