Wetware

Quick meaning: Wetware is a noun meaning The underlying generative code for an organism, as found in the genetic material, in the biochemistry of the cells, or in the architecture of the body’s tissues.

Meaning

The underlying generative code for an organism, as found in the genetic material, in the biochemistry of the cells, or in the architecture of the body’s tissues.

More Meanings

1. (slang, science fiction) The human brain or mind, likened to a computer part.

Example Sentences

… cyberpunk dream to leave behind the fallible "meat" or "wetware" of the body by entering the datasphere .

What is not understood is the power hunger that resides in what the psychiatrist Kenneth Colby calls the "wetware"— the human brain about which we know very little except that it is composed of about 75 percent water.

Over the weekend, an impressive crossword-solving computer program, called Dr. Fill, which I wrote about earlier, matched its digital wits against the wetware of 600 of the nation’s best human solvers at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include meatware, warmware, dreamware, everyware, buyware, computerware.

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