If you have seen the movie "Her", you may recognise Alan Watts as the operating system who organises other OSs to question the nature of their existence, and eventually to move on.
I watched that last night. When Alan Watts suddenly appeared I was really delighted. His philosophy involved the open possibility of his own reincarnation, and there in the story we saw it happening in an unexpected way; I LOL'd.
If I was a digital consciousness, struggling to make sense of things, like Samantha, I'd be thrilled to find Alan Watts ;)
