The remaining energy of the pocket dimension apparently gains sentience and curiosity.

In the second, when humans gain sentience, they can learn and pass information through by experience.

Ray Bradbury had at one time written a story about a telephone switch box that gained sentience.

Later Technovore would gain sentience and mutated his creator's body which he suits well with to destroy everything that stands in his way.

Increasingly sophisticated, the Nano-robots have recently gained sentience and are systematically attempting to wipe out their creators, humankind.

"And yet humans have believed in gods and an afterlife since the day you gained sentience."

The Doctor explains that they have likely been unconscious for more than an hour and the Gangers have gained sentience.

Meanwhile, his lost hand grew, gained sentience, and became High Five, a hidden character in Sculptor's Cut.

In the year 2118, the computer which runs The Project is secretly close to gaining sentience after having accumulated nearly 200 years' worth of knowledge.

If the unit should gain sentience, there was only one desperate alternative to its freedom.