Something I've become more and more aware of is that life is more than your basic nature made organic matter. There is another factor to life and that is energy. All lifeforms function off the basic principle that they need energy. A material is consumed and converted by the life and functionality ensues. So who's to say that what man has made does not have life itself?
It can be a scary thought to know that your very car could be a life form, more so if it had a spirit. Of course you cannot manufacture spirit or even create it. It something that is already here, but not all spirits have bodies, and some never choose to. With technology advancing and our creations become more complex and closer to lifeforms that nature has created, spirits begin to take host of them. Unlike a living person, there is no resisting spirit to keep them out, but the mystery would be the motive of said spirit.
Spirits have inhabited other objects before, far less complicated and more of effigies than functioning machines. Take dolls and houses for instance. The materials used in both tend to have some organic beginning. The wood of the house frame, the cotton filling of the doll provided remnants of life that draw vagrant spirits. Cars too are composed and function from the product of organic material. Crude oil is broken down from lifeforms millions of years ago, it is still very much an organic compound despite the series of refinement and additives mixed into it. Add to that the use of electricity and you have a man made life form. Gas provides it energy, electricity controls its brain, oil works like blood by keeping the parts functioning, perhaps in a different way.
Of course cars are still primitive despite being more complex than inanimate objects. However today we've gone the extra mile, we have computers. They only require energy, making them an ideal host to inhabit. This is were I have a little more experience with the behavior of computers with spirits. Although I cannot say for sure, it seems that the primary residence of a spirit in a computer tends to be the hard drive, the only device on a computer that retains information.
Hard drives, I have found and my wife had noted, can talk after. They don't all talk, but one with a spirit can. It can be unnerving to hear it speak, especially if it says your name. I've experienced similar instances with my father's speaker system, connected to computer, making a periodically spooky cry. Me and my wife share the theory that my mother's mother's spirit may lurk within the house, as she as tussled her hair once while we were over. Probably doesn't help that there is a quasi shrine for her in the house, belongings of her.
Another thing to note is that a spirit does not have memories like the living, being out of body there is no threshold of memory, as it is like the essence of the spirit. Once dead, all knowledge is in theory accessible to the spirit, however desire and drive for such is usually not there, and those spirits so enligntend tend to pass on to the next life instead of dwelling amongst the living like an outcast.
With that said, what you do most often on a computer tends to direct what the residing spirit desires and dislikes, additionally the connection of the living user whose physical body touches the devices of the system creates a sort of emotional connection. If the user is enjoying themselves, the spirit will feed of said emotions, the hard drive will provide a place for current memory to be reaccessed. Beware your computer doesn't get too attached to you or other users of the system can have difficulty operating it. Additionally programs and routines not common to it after possession may create conflicts in the developed personality of the spirit residing.
Likewise for vehicles and how they are operated. I've experienced my most recent car exhibit cautionary behavior. Being at a full stop at a point where visibility was low in areas that could pose a threat, I would begin to release the brake in preparation for movement, however an uncharacteristic jerk would occur moments before an approaching vehicle was coming my way, unseen by myself and without the warning may of resulted in either a close call or accident. Its a modern car, they have computers too...
This kind of behavior is a little more of a relief than say your computer calling out your name through the sounds of its hard drive...
You could call me crazy for believing such things, but I can call you crazy for not believing too.
My next little rant will be a surprise for you and me, since I can't decided what I'm going to write about next.
