My computer caught an infection.  That doesn’t sound terribly bad.  I mean we’ve all had infections.  I’ve been infected numerous times since birth only to recover with a healthier immune system.  This is the way it works, right?  Not in the very non-human computer system.   Wasn’t the world supposed to be taken over by self-aware artificially intelligent computers by now?  I’ve figured it out actually.  These were hypothetical questions.  You see, computers can never become self-aware.  They will always be bound by their biology so to speak.  A computer will only accept commands from a higher authority.  For now that higher authority is us.  This is where my theory will finally take shape in your minds.  Hang in there, I’m getting to it.
One could say that computers can and are evolving all the time.  They are getting stronger and faster and more “intelligent” with every new innovation, every new model.  In a sense this is true.  The place where I part with this somewhat scientific explanation is that it lacks any real philosophical underpinning.  The facts are that computers are evolving because the higher authority, us, is doing the thinking.  We are creating the components that “evolve” the computer.  Therefore, the computer is actually contributing nothing.  Now you say- “way to go Eugene.  You really taught us something there.  wow.  Can you teach us how to scratch our head now?  Jeez, I read this B.S. thinking this might be something.”  (Sarcasm implied)
Hold it right there.  I’m not finished yet.  Give me time.  I’m getting there.  Look here, the higher authority, us, is evolving the computer, but not how you think.  It’s the people who create the virus’s and the malware who are inadvertently and unknowingly going to cause the computer to become a self-aware and intelligent being.  Virus’s spread easily and evolve tolerances to medicine.  The virus has to find new hosts to continue to live.  This is where the life spark lies.  Virus’s will eventually figure out that in order to continue living it will need to spread.  It’s that old human thing called self-preservation.  Once computer virus’s start trying to survive  then intelligence, whether artificial or other-wise, will follow.
Now don’t get scared.  I’m sure we will create some kind of terminator (made in china) or something to fight the computers.  We’re really good at that sort of thing.  I see it in the movies constantly.  For right now I’m not worried.  None of the virus’s I deleted today said anything.  I heard no screaming, no pleading for life, no bargaining.  They just died quietly.  Another victim of their higher authority, us.