1. The term wetware is used to describe the integration of concepts from the physical construct known as the «central nervous system» and the mental construct known as the «human mind.» Wetware is an abstraction of two parts of a human seen from the computing concepts of hardware and software.
In computers, hardware can be perfectly separated from software, whereas the brain-mind system (hardware-software) is a self-organizing system that changes dynamically and continuously (learning process).
The hardware would be the brain, the structure, the neurons, while the software would be the mind and mental processes.
The «hardware» concerns only bioelectrical and biochemical properties of the central nervous system, specifically the brain. If the impulses traveling through various neurons were the software, then the physical neurons could be the hardware.
The fused interaction of hardware and software manifests itself through continually changing physical connections and physical and chemical influences, spreading across wide spectrums of supposedly unrelated areas. This interaction requires a new term that exceeds the definition of those individual terms.
The «software» is relegated to a higher conceptual level, in this case the analogy would be between the human mind and software.
The intricate interplay between the physical realm and the mental realm is observable in many examples. The combination of these concepts are expressed in the term wetware.
2. (wet matter, liveware, meatware, PEBKAC). In hacker jargon, this term generally refers to a person operating a computer. That is, a human who is part of a computer system.
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