MEANING
Living biological material—especially the brain or nervous system—considered as an information-processing counterpart to hardware and software.
Use it for
Human-machine interfaces, embodied cognition, and tensions between biological minds and computation.Use in cyberpunk or AI scenes when treating living tissue or cognition as part of a technical system.
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The hacker trusted the wetware behind her eyes more than the ship’s failing interface.
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