| 释义 |
wetware|ˈwɛtwɛə(r)|
[f. wet a. after hardware, software.]
Chemical materials organized so as to perform arithmetic or logical operations; brain substance, as having this ability.
1975Nature 23 Oct. 634/1 An electronic computer is made up of hardware and software; a chemical automaton needs an additional component, a chemical reaction system which might be called ‘wetware’. 1977N.Y. Times 8 May i. 34/6 Computer scientists have lately begun talking about ‘wetware’, which is the human brain. 1984Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Dec. 1442/3 There is no obvious reason why biological ‘wetware’ should be any better at imbuing internal structures with semantic significance than silicon ‘hardware’. 1985Listener 10 Jan. 9/3 The whole claim of strong AI is that the physical and chemical hardware or wetware of the system are quite irrelevant. |