More than an organic computer, such interlaced
wetware (the Drummers' network) plays the very role of a cyberspace, in which pieces of information are accreted and transformed to build up a massive intelligence or awareness, which, as the Neuromancer/Wintermute AI, exists as a suspended ghost-in-the-shell, although endorsing a social (not self-centered) purpose, thus becoming the key for the development of socialist inventions such as the Seed.
This guide to pragmatic thinking for software developers and other knowledge workers concentrates on "
wetware" (that is, your brain) and how to adopt new learning and thinking skills according to findings in cognitive science.
As a bonus, one may ask whether digital hardware, the current option, can ever adequately emulate analog
wetware, even if this is all there is to consciousness.
Eugene Macintosh User Group - Program: "Backup - Hardware, Software and
Wetware." Place: Veterans' Memorial Building, 1626 Willamette St., Eugene.
Cyberpunk's implants, 'mods', '
wetware', and the 'hard-wired' brains that run them, leave little room for the paranormal, for a Cartesian 'ghost' that cannot be downloaded or replicated.
Now, because of the computer/program analogy, we can suggest that what is common to a mental operation and the brain, '
wetware' in which the operation is realized, is some order that remains invariant across transformations.
You may have chosen technology in part because you wanted to be in a world where logic ruled and you didn't have to deal with messy emotions, "
wetware" as they are sometimes called by software engineers.
Although much of her work involves mathematical models and 3-D software, she has never lost her preference for working directly on the "
wetware."
The DNS therefore mediates between the needs and preferences of
wetware and of software.