~Theoretically, you could figure out every book you've ever
read, every TV show and movie you've ever seen, every website
you've ever visited. Also theoretically, you could trace back a
large percentage of the names of people you've ever known, from
school, work, neighborhood, online. Then to each you could make
sublists of "What makes this [x] meaningful to me?" and add
things until you can think of no more. Where you could go from
there, I don't know honestly. But there's a lot of potential
data collection that could make such an effort partially
possible. Of course, the same two people can read the same
books, TV shows, movies, know the same people, have nearly
identical experiences yet are entirely different. Still, it
could be an interesting project. == Quite true - yet what about
the subconscious influences? There could be underlying
assumptions that guide the rationalizing process that you might
not be directly cognizant of but could be revealed by knowing
the entirety of influential input. Perhaps things you haven't
used yet. Something from a movie you saw when you were 10 that
hasn't yet been needed - its influence not required just yet,
but one day its significance shows itself through life
circumstance. That sort of thing. For a decent AI, it would not
only have to capture the present and the past but would have to
be able to predict potential futures. ==
