Innoculating the masses to prevent future sentience shock.

So I am sitting there with 2 of my 3 kids and watching Transformers (The new version that runs on cartoon network). I was struck by a few different things.
Firstly, I was impressed by the fact that the Transformers seem to be humanity independent. They assert a culture totally separate from humans that encounter humanity as an accident. Suspending the language barrier issue aspect as rational option via a cartoon rather than an assumed hurdle it would almost show a Simultaneous but non-biologic evolution.
All of the Auto-bots and Decepticons (As they do not define themselves as transformers), seems to have a defined concept of birth (Coming on-line), the soul (The spark), and death (Going off line). They also have people protecting the "All-Spark" which seems to be the source of "Coming on-line". And while the Auto-bots have control of it, they do not use it to destroy the decepticons, but the decepticons have said they would use it as such.
They also seem to recognize the "All spark" as existing as part of life in humanity. This poses a number of questions for me. Such as how they will relate to the mass of humanity when they discover that most of them eat flesh. Or would they simply break it down to taking parts from a PC for upgrades?
On the 1st episode (after the pilot) already bigotry of man vs. Machine was being demonstrated. And it was clear that people were feeling threatened and were developing plots to take them down.
I figured what better opinion to get than that of a 7 year old. So I looked at my daughter and asked her what she thought of that episode. She instantly looked at me and told me how "Stupid" the "mean people" were for not liking the "Transformer people". To her, it was clear that these characters were as capable of emotional capability as the people were. Of course she thinks that animals feel that way too (more and more scholars are starting to agree). I am not saying this supports or denies anything but what it shows me is that certain groundwork is being lain.
My 7 year old and 4 year old already accept the concept of non-biologic sentience as Truth. It will be exposure to others that will lead them to believe otherwise.
Just a half thought. Meant solely to engender other thought.