Talk:Sentient/@comment-178.204.228.101-20150805130027/@comment-82.76.87.101-20150810132949

^ heh, gg.

But yeah, sentient machines are a very old trope in all forms of media - probably originating in the old myths and stories about golems. Sentient machine-races are somewhat newer, but science-fiction books have been exploring the concept for probably over a century now.

Only time something's original is when it's based on a new discovery no one saw coming, and even then there's a good chance it's been done before.

It's nearly impossible to be compleatly original - someone, somewhere did it before you (weather they are well known is a different matter). But that's fine, since what we want isn't really something that's totally different, but something that's different enough.