I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.

This collection had a strong influence on modern computational linguistics. Edited collection of essays about robotics with Introduction and Postscript by Minsky. The theory attempts to explain how what we call intelligence could be a product of the interaction of non-intelligent parts.