the ghost in the machine
an ambiguous phrase to describe illogical or unexpected computational behavior that may or may not be caused by some level of sentience be it maintained within the system or at the pebkac layer.
sally couldn’t explain why her computer would not work, then as soon as she called it the machine started working again. it blamed it on the ghost in the machine
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