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There is no doubt in the mind of the alert observer that humans and technology will continue to

merge, both metaphorically and in the physical sense.

This site is dedicated to the study of electronic devices used to alter the human experience. In an

effort to take advantage of the physical interface with the brain; the pathways of visual and auditoryperception, to alter the mind, at least temporarily.

Wetware can be defined as the processes of the brain and nervous system, and is derived from the

concepts of hardware and software.

An early reference to the term wetware is in the in the novels of Rudy Rucker, one of which he so

entitled "Wetware". Rudy Rucker was a science fiction writer and a professor in the Department of

Mathematics and Computer Science at San Jose State University in the 1980s.

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A quote from him in reference to wetware, "... all sparks and tastes and tangles, all its

stimulus/response patterns the whole biocybernetic software of mind."

Today you can find countless references to the word in both fiction and nonfiction, and mainstream

media is slowly instantiating it into their vocabulary.

You can also find several misuses, our perhaps just drifting meanings, of the term. For our purposes

the totality of wetware needs to be discussed.

The physical brain itself is a beautiful creation, far exceeding in complexity anything humanity could

hope to create on its own. Within four weeks of conception an embryo begins producing half amillion neurons every minute.

Soon the neurons will begin establishing synapses, or connections, at a rate of two million a second.

And although neuroscientists would say that the brain doesnt reach full maturity until somewhere

in the third decade of life, an important development of cognitive science is the appreciation for the

plasticity of the human brain, possibly extending our entire lives.

The important question now, for wetware consideration, is the link between the physical brain and

the mind.

This question still fills voluminous tombs of scientific literature, with much left for debate, how the

electrochemical properties of the physical structure lead to the collection of experiences we define

as self-awareness. A new concept, specifically the term wetware, was required in order to accurately

describe this system. It is in many ways a integration of "hardware" and "software" that exceeds the

definition of those individual terms.

It is the link between the physical brain and the 'mind', the unique exploitables created by the

integration of the hardware and software concepts, that a wetware hacker will utilize in the effort to

reverse engineer attainable subsections of this most multifaceted of constructions.

It is the desire of a wetware hacker is to take advantage of the physical interface with the brain,

visual and auditory perception, along with direct electromagnetic manipulation, to alter the mind, at

least temporarily.

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It is only in todays world that the understanding of wetware, and the maturation of an interface

technology, that the narrow bandwidth of common perception can be bypassed, and the minds

information superhighway can be tapped.

This site is dedicated to the study of electronic devices used to alter the human experience.

It is the desire of a wetware hacker is to take advantage of the physical interface with the brain; the

pathways of visual and auditory perception, along with direct electromagnetic manipulation, to alter

the mind, at least temporarily.

There is no doubt in the mind of the alert observer that humans and technology will continue tomerge, both metaphorically and in the physical sense.