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JackSkellington said:The possibility of computer information networks becoming intelligent and indeed concious was explored in the Japanese animated flick Ghost in the Shell. Although, of course, it also featured big guns and breasts, being Anime and everything.
There's also the word "slemen", which aside from inspiring a poster here's name, has been said to appear onscreen and on anamolous computer print outs every so often.
Another case was that ghost who used a word processor to communicate with the computer's owneres, although I think that's considered rather dubious these days...
I suppose going back to the question of whether computers/networks can become concious it really depends on what_conciousness_is, and I sure as hell don't know!
Perhaps this is related.