9 computer software, hardware and firmware in the field of decision making, learning and control within machines; scientific, nautical, surveying, electric, photographic, cinematographic, optical, weighing, measuring, signaling, checking, life-saving, security, and teaching apparatus and instruments, namely, machine embedded systems comprised of one or more microprocessors, microcontrollers or state machines to receive sensory input, analyze the connective nature of and relationship between causal events giving rise to those stimuli, to effect decision making and learning, and to initiate and control responses and effects; apparatus for data acquisition, processing and retrieval, namely, machine embedded systems comprised of one or more microprocessors, microcontrollers or state machines to receive sensory input, analyze the connective nature of and relationship between causal events giving rise to those stimuli, to effect decision making and learning, and to initiate and control responses and effects; natural language systems comprised of machine embedded systems comprised of one or more microprocessors, microcontrollers or state machines to receive sensory input, analyze the connective nature of and relationship between causal events giving rise to those stimuli, to effect decision making and learning, and to initiate and control responses and effects; apparatus for recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images, namely, machine embedded systems comprised of one or more microprocessors, microcontrollers or state machines to receive sensory input, analyze the connective nature of and relationship between causal events giving rise to those stimuli, to effect decision making and learning, and to initiate and control reponses and effects; blank magnetic data carriers and computer memory storage devices