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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.

La era de La Era del Diamante: simulaciones cognitivas, wetware en enjambre y ciberespacios socializados como la esencia del postcyberpunk

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.

Pragmatic thinking and learning; refactor your "wetware"

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.

AI, Scripture, and hardware

Eugene Macintosh User Group - Program: "Backup - Hardware, Software and Wetware." Place: Veterans' Memorial Building, 1626 Willamette St., Eugene.

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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.

Paranormality: science fiction's holy grail

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.

Quantum information processing in brain systems and the spiritual nature of mankind

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.

Developing research/technology leaders

Although much of her work involves mathematical models and 3-D software, she has never lost her preference for working directly on the "wetware."

How to see what whales hear: biomedical imaging reveals new insights into marine mammal ears

The DNS therefore mediates between the needs and preferences of wetware and of software.