The first thought I had in answer was Phillip K Dick, Do Androids Dream…/Blade Runner (movie) – must admit I haven’t read the book, but the movie was suberb. Rutger Hauer’s portrayal of a constructed (artificial) sentient being was compelling. Harrison Ford played the blade runner – sent to hunt down the rogue androids…to start, he had realized the true immorality of his profession and was coerced to that one last assignment – we view both the hunt and his prey through the eyes of someone who conceives of artificial intelligence as fully alive and aware.
Considering the topic of artificial intelligence and science fiction… in Robert Heinlein’s novels The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Time Enough for Love, Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walked Trough Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, etc. computers were more apt to develope consciouness as they increased in complexity – but more significantly as they interacted more intimately with people.
The first thought I had in answer was Phillip K Dick, Do Androids Dream…/Blade Runner (movie) – must admit I haven’t read the book, but the movie was suberb. Rutger Hauer’s portrayal of a constructed (artificial) sentient being was compelling. Harrison Ford played the blade runner – sent to hunt down the rogue androids…to start, he had realized the true immorality of his profession and was coerced to that one last assignment – we view both the hunt and his prey through the eyes of someone who conceives of artificial intelligence as fully alive and aware.
Considering the topic of artificial intelligence and science fiction… in Robert Heinlein’s novels The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Time Enough for Love, Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walked Trough Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, etc. computers were more apt to develope consciouness as they increased in complexity – but more significantly as they interacted more intimately with people.