Artificial Consciousness in Literature and Movies
- Vanamonde in Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars—an artificial being that was immensely powerful but entirely child-like.
- The Ship (the result of a large-scale AC experiment) in Frank Herbert's Destination: Void and sequels, despite past edicts warning against "Making a Machine in the Image of a Man's Mind."
- Jane in Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, and Investment Counselor
- HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Robots in Isaac Asimov's Robot series
- The Minds in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.
- Puppet Master in Ghost in the Shell manga and anime.
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