English Dictionary

wetware

名詞

俗語 不可算名詞

(slang) The human brain or mind, often specifically as a computing element. Adapted as a biological parallel to hardware and software. Common in the cyberspace genre of science fiction.

日本語の意味

人間の脳や心、特に計算や情報処理の役割を担う要素としての人間の認知機能 / ハードウェアやソフトウェアの生物学的対応物として捉えられる、人間の生体システムに関する概念 / サイバースペースを題材としたSFにおいて、機械的な要素と対比される生物学的・精神的な側面

At the cybernetics conference, several speakers warned that wetware often becomes the weakest link in security.

サイバネティクスの会議で、数人の講演者が、人間の脳がしばしばセキュリティ上の最も弱い要素になると警告した。

意味（1）

(slang) The human brain or mind, often specifically as a computing element. Adapted as a biological parallel to hardware and software. Common in the cyberspace genre of science fiction.

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.

意味（2）

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.