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Wetware CPU

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Wetware CPU	comment	Digital processing technology has come a long way from the days of mechanical relays. Transistors, those magical little things that make modern computers tick, have gotten so small we can measure their size in individual atoms — small enough that we can cram a lot of them even in devices that fit in the palm of your hand. But despite our best advances, Father Science's thinking machines are still leagues behind those of Mother Nature. Even as flash memory and transistor technologies are close to reaching their absolute limit, the human brain still casually humiliates our most cutting-edge devices with its immunity to EMPs, its absurdly low 20-watt power consumption and its storage space large enough to hold the entire internet. But what if we told you there's a way to take a shortcut past the constraints of electronic computing and hold unimaginable processing power at your fingertips? You can do all of that and more with the Wetware CPU... at least as far as Science Fiction is concerned. Wetware refers to a biological system. A Wetware CPU is the brain and nervous system of living beingsnote typically human beings, because if we'll create an affront to nature and humanity, we might as well not be pussies about it and go the whole hog used to power non-organic machinery. In speculative fiction settings, particularly those where true Artificial Intelligence either doesn't exist or is shunned, it's sometimes the case that the brains of living beings, sapient or not, will be incorporated into machines and used for processing or command and control purposes. It varies whether the rest of bodies are retained, or how willing the beings in question are. When used on unwilling subjects, it may be an element of Sci-Fi Horror, particularly Body Horror or And I Must Scream scenarios. Related to Brain in a Jar, Man in the Machine, and Cyborg Helmsman. Compare Brain/Computer Interface, Living Battery, Unwilling Roboticisation, and Human Resources. Contrast Brain Uploading, where instead of using human "wetware" to run machine software, you use machine hardware to run human "software". Also contrast Wetware Body, for when a machine controls an organic body instead of the other way around. Finally, also contrast Tinman Typist, for when a machine occupies the workstation of a human instead of the latter being wired into where a machine should be.
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Wetware CPU / int_11859033	comment	Narbonic has an arc titled "Professor Madblood and the Wetware Interface'', in which Madblood uses Dave's brain as a CPU for a giant robot. Using alcohol solution to store the brain might have been a mistake, though.
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Wetware CPU / int_12fd5db0	comment	Megamind: Megamind's brain-bots are implied to be this, though the closest thing to a brain one can see is a plasma ball.
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Wetware CPU / int_12ffd3e9	comment	Kiva Andru from Megas XLR has a bionic plug port on the back of her skull, which she used to interface her mecha, but she hasn't used it due to MEGAS being heavily modified with a car chassis. Her alternate universe counterpart, however, has further modified her port to accommodate a cable, along with the left side of her face being robotic.
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Wetware CPU / int_13668e6e	comment	In Twig, Jamie, a boy with Photographic Memory, is regularly plugged into a set of large brains which help him store, organize, and process the information he gathers in a useful manner, letting him rapidly make connections between related memories. He essentially acts as an interface tool for the brains, collectively referred to as Project Caterpillar.
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Wetware CPU / int_13998e73	comment	MapleStory: Gelimer attempted to use his airship, the Black Heaven, to overwhelm Maple World with a special chemical that has a high mortality rate (and which zombifies the survivors), but he needed a great power source, AI, interface, and security system for such a gargantuan ship, so he resurrects Lotus, a former commander of the Black Mage, and presumably uses mind control and enhancements via technology. Notably, every single bit of this plan is most definitely morally wrong. Orchid, Gelimer's superior and Lotus' sister, is clearly livid because of all this.
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Wetware CPU / int_17bfcf60	comment	Homeworld: The mothership would have needed an unworkably large bridge crew to handle all command and control tasks, and they could not make an AI to deal with them for certain reasons. Neuroscientist Karen S'jet came up with a plan to use a brain for the task and insisted that she herself be fitted into the ship. She reprises her role in Homeworld 2 in the new mothership, the Pride of Hiigara, a century later. Cataclysm reveals that the Bentusi are connected to their ships in a similar fashion. They seem to consider this a stage in a civilization's development and collectively refer to races that have achieved this feat as "The Unbound". It's implied they helped out the Kushan due to Karan being newly Unbound herself. In HW2, the Big Bad Makaan is a Spaceship Boy, as two cutscenes show him submerged in a liquid tank with wires and tubes sticking out of his body. Presumably, the tank is designed to be able to transfer between ships, as he clearly plans to take command of the Sajuuk.
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Wetware CPU / int_20ac8a71	comment	Robotman of the Doom Patrol is the brain of a human who underwent a horrendous accident that was transplanted into a robot body to keep him alive. His opinion of this tends to vary from "it's better than being paralyzed/dead" to "maybe it's better than being paralyzed".
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Wetware CPU / int_2250e67e	comment	The Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Dead Stop" has an automated space station that rapidly repairs ships for a fee in certain resources... and a hidden fee in kidnapping one of the passengers in an "accident" to use their brainpower to keep itself running.
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Wetware CPU / int_24a18ffe	comment	In The Ship Who... series, children who are severely physically handicapped but have highly functional brains are placed in titanium life-support capsules known as "shells", which are installed into starships, space stations, and other such things as human computer cores. Shellpeople regard these ships etc as their true bodies and are much more Long-Lived than their "softpeople" counterparts. Each one has a Handy Helper who forms a Mayflyâ€“December Friendship with them. Tia, who was paralyzed from the chin down at the age of seven, is delighted to be a ship and feels that her sense of touch and physicality has been restored.
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Wetware CPU / int_24d953d0	comment	Metroid has the Mother Brain herself, who was originally a Chozo supercomputer before turning against them to side with the Space Pirates.
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Wetware CPU / int_2594ce60	comment	One ending of Deus Ex: Invisible War involves this happening to everyone.
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Wetware CPU / int_279cd0b8	comment	The Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures episode "DNA Doomsday" involves an organic supercomputer that was built from the DNA up to be a perfect data processing system. When a simulation is run to test the system, a serious error causes the organism to go on a rampage and try to test the simulation in real life — the simulation being to test whether it is possible to destroy the military base that the computer was built in.
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Wetware CPU / int_2a0952c3	comment	This is a vital part of creating a cyborg in Space Station 13, using a human brain plugged into a mind/machine interface as their core processor which becomes an extension of the AI by following all of its rules, including the ones the traitor uploads.
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Wetware CPU / int_2a6eefe5	comment	Metroid Fusion has the B.O.X, a security drone that has an organic CPU. It goes rogue and Samus blows its casing apart, which allows the X parasite to infect it.
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Wetware CPU / int_2d1fc03b	comment	Front Mission: This is the core premise behind the very illegal modifications being tested... and the fact that it happened to the main character's fiancÃ©e is just salt in the wound. In a bit of irony, Driscoll would end up subjected to it and become a CPU as well for a sort of super-mech, losing all sense of identity in the process.
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Wetware CPU / int_2d316ba2	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): After being severely injured for his failures, Baxter Stockman goes through a series of mechanical bodies, losing more and more of his real body at each step. Also played with during the first Fast Forward season of the series; the turtles find the journal that Cody Jones had used to learn about them. Once the temptation to read it becomes too great, they read a series of entries centered around each of the turtles. Donatello's entry (much to his horror) states that, after an accident in deep space, his brain is placed into a robot known as the Serling unit. Fortunately for the turtles, it turned out the journal they were reading was a fake prepared by Splinter and Cody when they knew the turtles couldn't resist reading it.
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Wetware CPU / int_2f1032e5	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, the Alaya-Vijnana is a Brain/Computer Interface that allows for one to pilot Gundams and similar Mobile Suit Frames with exact precision and spatial awareness using their own minds, with the physical control layouts of these Mobile Suits only really needed for reload/firing weapons and thruster controls. The only issue with this is that the "Node" component is fused directly to the spinal columns of still-developing prepubescent kids: and that's only if the procedure is successful due to the High-Mortality Rate that each individual surgery carries with it where the best failure option is to wind up completely paralyzed. Mikazuki Augus himself had underwent the surgery three times.
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Wetware CPU / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has Lordgenome's head sealed within a tube and plugged into computers. The scene (from Lagann-Hen) of him hacking into Cathedral Lazengann must be seen to be believed.
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Wetware CPU / int_329e40ce	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_329e40ce	comment	One of the biggest plot twists in Luminous Avenger iX is the truth behind the Butterfly Effect: It's the brain of Copen's younger sister Mytyl, stripped of her body decades ago and hooked up to a machine to be used as a surrogate Muse. The goal of Copen's entire journey is to end her suffering.
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Wetware CPU / int_331e009	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_331e009	comment	In Borderlands 2, it's revealed that the Guardian Angel that serves as an Exposition Fairy in the game is not a sentient A.I. as she claims, but a Siren named Angel hooked up to machines and constantly pumped with Eridium by her father Handsome Jack as a tool for his schemes.
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Wetware CPU / int_331e00a	comment	One of the boss battles in Borderlands 3 is against Gigamind, a Maliwan AI that turns out to be a Brain in a Jar piloting a robotic suit. Later in the game, you encounter weaker versions called NOGs which act as support units for Maliwan troops.
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Wetware CPU / int_33dd1d90	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_33dd1d90	comment	In Half-Life 2, the Striders actually have organic brains, which the player gets to see when Dog rips one out in a scene in Episode 2. Probably the same goes for other Synths used by the Combine. This is very likely, since the other Synths the Combine uses are other races that have fallen to them.
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Wetware CPU / int_353b7af3	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_353b7af3	comment	The Spore Drive from Star Trek: Discovery allows a starship to travel through a subspace mycelial network. It requires an intelligent being to interface with the fungus and navigate the network — first a giant alien tardigrade, then Lieutenant Stamets (the drive's inventor) after he injected himself with tardigrade DNA.
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Wetware CPU / int_390a0da6	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_390a0da6	comment	The Heavy Vertical Tank, or HVT from Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor uses what is called a Human Processing Unit. Within the universe, an outbreak of silicon-eating bacteria has caused what is called the "Data Crash", and human technology is set back into the 1940s/1950s analog technology. However, the so-called HPUs used within HVT units allow much faster processing and powering of the complex systems within it. While normal Vertical Tanks require a crew of at least four (Commander/Gunner, Engineer, Radio Operator, and Loader), the HVT requires only one, as its onboard machinery uses the Processing Units to make its calculation for it. However, the system has its horrific side-effect: the humans used as HPUs are basically discarded once it has reached a certain limit of effectiveness and it is implied that HVT units go through these Human Processors like a cannon goes through ammunition. It also provides a justification on why the United People (essentially the United Nations under Chinese management) seems excessively cruel to the conquered; they are abducting people left, right, and center to forcibly use them as HPUs. By the way, the people who were used and discarded as said HPUs? They're not dead; they're catatonic, with no clear sign if they can make a recovery, if at all possible.
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Wetware CPU / int_3ac36a5c	comment	The Headmasters, Powermasters and Targetmasters of Transformers: Generation 1 are organic beings that link into the Humongous Mecha Transformers as heads, engines and weapons; rather than acting as the "mind" of the Transformers, though, they act in conjunction with their Artificial Intelligence.
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Wetware CPU / int_3b182a22	comment	In the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach", the people of Majalis require a living being to be plugged in to their planetary computer systems to maintain a habitable environment on their world.
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Wetware CPU / int_3b7abee2	comment	Half-Life: In Half-Life 2, the Striders actually have organic brains, which the player gets to see when Dog rips one out in a scene in Episode 2. Probably the same goes for other Synths used by the Combine. This is very likely, since the other Synths the Combine uses are other races that have fallen to them. Half-Life: Alyx reveals that Combine computers run using "memory worms", processors made out of mutated brains with assorted creatures fused into it, such as an occasional rat.
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Wetware CPU / int_3dfe8b9	comment	GURPS Reign of Steel: The Denver zonemind was forced to do this after the US Air Force crippled it in a Heroic Sacrifice strike during the Final War. For obvious reasons, it keeps this hidden from the other zoneminds.
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Wetware CPU / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-763 is a huge patch of Meat Moss supporting dozens of networked human brains. It's looking for more.
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Wetware CPU / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion features the Magi, biocomputers whose wetware is modeled after three aspects (as a scientist, as a mother, and as a woman) of their creator Naoko Akagi. The Evas themselves are almost totally wetware. Magi even has a lot of brains inside it, although this is never explained in-show.
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Wetware CPU / int_498b77e9	comment	Skin Horse has Nick, a perverse foul-mouthed helicopter who was once a gamer and web troll until he had his brain scooped out, rewired, and shoved in a jar. Nick may well be the first cyborg brony if In-Universe hints are correct. Particularly interesting in that part of the plot is him coming to terms with this to such a point that he now self-identifies as a machine and has joined a robot union.
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Wetware CPU / int_4ce969a9	comment	The fanmade mod Marathon: Rubicon features an AI named Haller at the beginning, who is known to be a wetware AI. You are assigned by Durandal to retrieve his wetware chip and send it off in a shuttle to evacuate Haller from his heavily damaged spaceship, UESC Chimera. However, Tycho later reveals that mission to have been a set-up, as Durandal intercepted the shuttle and in turn cannibalized Haller out of jealousy.
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Wetware CPU / int_517380f	comment	Terra Ignota: A major part of the worldbuilding are set-sets, humans modified since before birth to be living computers, far more efficient than any purely mechanical system. Set-sets make the global Flying Car network possible: despite hundreds of millions of cars zipping around the world, there are only a single-digit number of collisions a year. They keep their bodies, since all those nerves and senses can be remapped for additional data input - wearing a contact-filled body suit, they're said to have twenty additional senses to perceive a database with. Their existence is a human rights issue that's caused riots in the past; anti-set-set "Nurturists" call their creation a form of child abuse that permanently stunts their psychological developmentnote technically true: the term "set-set" refers to how their Brillist number sets, a sort of quantified neurological/psychological profile, are artificially set to ideal, abnormal parameters and then permanently set again so it never changes from that and deprives them of a normal life, while their supporters (and set-sets themselves) point out that they're perfectly happy and well-adjusted people, and separating them from their computers and concomitant additional senses is akin to mutilation.
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Wetware CPU / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In the Bad Batch arc, it's discovered that the Separatists have gotten access to a stolen Republic strategy algorithm via using the captured, thought-dead ARC trooper Echo in this fashion, keeping him in a stasis pod and hooking him up to computers to extract the algorithm from his brain.
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Wetware CPU / int_5477bc92	comment	Sprawl Trilogy: A significant part of the plots of Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive is the Bio-chips produced by Maas Neotech that puts them light-years ahead of the competition and were actually designed by the AI for its own purposes. One such biochip looks like a bit of grey matter on the end of a Microsoft sliver.
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Wetware CPU / int_58f41f29	comment	Light features K-ships, each one a heavily armed starship built around alien technology interfaced with a cybernetically altered human in an amniotic vat. The process of conversion is permanent and more than a little nightmarish, and most of its recipients are children or young teenagers.
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Wetware CPU / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Raiden has had his entire body amputated from the molars down, leaving only the upper half of his head (and his spine) and essentially turning him into a Pretty Boy RoboCop. Senator Armstrong's Evil Plan in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance involves abducting orphans and putting their brains into robot bodies to make an army of cyborg Child Soldiers, but Raiden manages to prevent this and ship the brains to Germany, where they can get proper help.
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Wetware CPU / int_59da62aa	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas: Mr. House essentially turned himself into this, to make himself effectively immortal. When the Courier first meets him, he's a bust of his smarmy grin projected onto a massive screen. When you really meet him, he is an Abomination,note Literally. The "Purifier" and "Abominable" perks stack on him a withered phantom in the shape of a man sealed within a life-sustaining sarcophagus. The Think Tank of the Old World Blues DLC, robots controlled by the brains of Mad Scientists so that said scientists can conduct experiments After the End. They also do this to the Courier against their will, although the Courier somehow manages to remain fully self-aware without their brain, much to the Think Tank's surprise (though it's explained by the gun shot you revived that the start of the game). Eventually leading to the bizarre situation where the Courier has a conversation with their own Brain in a Jar and can even hit on it.
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Wetware CPU / int_5b8afa32	comment	Betterman's sister series GaoGaiGar entirely averts this. Although the background information reveals that Volfogg's AI and personality were donated by a deceased secret agent, the creation of Goldymarg shows that this does not involve using the brain itself; rather, the donor's mind is scanned as a baseline, then the scanned brain pattern is modified with programming as necessary. This is done because a 'natural' Super-AI may take years to program and, even after activation, takes six months to mature to the point of being combat ready, and needs to be taught various information manually during this time. Importantly, a 'donated' Super-AI also seems to inherit its donor's loyalties, so it's probably not practical to use an unwilling participant.
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Wetware CPU / int_5d321bc8	comment	In Factorio, the recipe for building the Spidertron requires a fish. Since the model for a destroyed Spidertron shows a fish flopping around in it the implication is that the fish is being used to control the Spidertron.
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Wetware CPU / int_5d354f8	comment	In the Red Dwarf episode "D.N.A.", Kryten states that his brain includes a bit of biological material, which is apparently enough for the DNA conversion machine to make him fully human.
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Wetware CPU / int_6155364	comment	Wolfenstein: The New Order has the Maschinenmensch prototype robot, a hulking behemoth created by Deathshead and piloted unwillingly by the brain of the ally you sacrificed in 1946.
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Wetware CPU / int_61d236b7	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_61d236b7	comment	InCryptid: In Imaginary Numbers and Calculated Risks, the naturally telepathic Johrlac force Sarah (one of them) to solve cosmic equations in her mind, of which they each have a part passed down via Ghost Memory. To avoid My Skull Runneth Over, she uses the minds of all the other Johrlac (plus part of the minds of her cousins and friends) to offload some of the enormous mental strain, like using a server farm to augment a computer's processing power.
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Wetware CPU / int_624523ec	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_624523ec	comment	In Black Legion, Khayon's sister Itzara works as the main hub of Spaceship Girl Anamnesis, along with dozens of artificially grown brains.
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Wetware CPU / int_62570927	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: The super-villain MODOK (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing) was originally titled MODOC (Mental Organism Designed Only for Computation), having been created to be the organic computer component necessary for the Mad Scientist organization AIM to create the original Cosmic Cube, as only an organic mind could do the computations. The Supreme Intelligence of the Kree was originally created for the same purpose as MODOK by incorporating the brains of the Kree's best scientists but refused and instead took over the Kree Empire. On a lighter note, the Spider-Man villain Silvermane, himself a cyborg at the time, is reduced to a head and then wired to a small toy car for extra mobility in The Superior Foes of Spider-Man.
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Wetware CPU / int_631805af	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_631805af	comment	In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Raiden has had his entire body amputated from the molars down, leaving only the upper half of his head (and his spine) and essentially turning him into a Pretty Boy RoboCop.
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Wetware CPU / int_63e943da	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_63e943da	comment	Some of the Berserker stories have the killing machines attempt to use organic brains to introduce more fuzzy logic into their tactical computers.
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Wetware CPU / int_64ddf294	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_64ddf294	comment	Sansha's Nation drones in EVE Online are controlled by humans brainwashed and cybernetically altered for this purpose.
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Wetware CPU / int_67d445c1	comment	In The Outside, Archangels are high-ranking angels who consist only of brains and machinery, their bodies having been removed to avoid distractions from their duty of managing angels. Unlike lower-ranking angels, Archangels have enough bandwidth to communicate directly from the Gods, but because they don't have any sense organs, their perception consists entirely of information gathered from Gods and other angels.
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Wetware CPU / int_69085a0	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_69085a0	comment	The Zentradi Mobile Fortresses of Macross are each commanded by an ancient Supreme Commander who is integrally fused to the ship.
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Wetware CPU / int_6b3fc2de	comment	Betterman has Dual Kinds, who are a mix of this and Living Battery; they both power and control the Neuronoid robots by combining their "neural energy" through the use of a mysterious substance known as Linker Gel. The control systems of both Neuronoids and many of the autonomous mecha in the series play this straighter — the ubiquitous Black Box computer systems all contain one or more harvested brains. Neuronoids in particular originally used multiple human brains, but this practice ceased because the resulting Neuronoids retained enough awareness to become sentient and autonomous, so Mode Warp started using primate, dog, and dolphin brains instead.
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Wetware CPU / int_6c1d09b1	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_6c1d09b1	comment	In Fallout, the Master is a mass of Meat Moss that has physically integrated itself into the computers and electrical systems of a Vault, allowing it to control the machinery of the Vault as an extension of its own body.
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Wetware CPU / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Far Harbor, an expansion pack for Fallout 4, has the player discover Vault 118, which is inhabited by a small population of rich people who tried to achieve immortality by becoming Robobrains.
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Wetware CPU / int_6e1d5f36	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: Pilot is symbiotically joined to Moya, a leviathan. While Pilot controls the crew's life support systems and pilots the ship, Moya is capable of moving on her own and can disregard Pilot's instructions if she has to. Moya's son Talyn has a much smaller neural implant that can attach to a humanoid's neck instead of permanently fusing to the ship. This allows his captain greater independence than a Pilot, but Talyn proves even more willing to disobey instructions than his mother. In season three Stark discovers that Talyn still has a vestigial Pilot den despite the Peacekeeprs' attempts to "breed out" the need for it. Stark uses the partially formed den to temporarily bond with the ship and steer him out of danger.
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Wetware CPU / int_6f788b04	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_6f788b04	comment	E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy allows the player to replace their nervous system with a top-of-the-line computer system, interfacing with the brain for much more improved reflexes. At least, according to vanilla text - the real in-game effect is heightened agility.
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Wetware CPU / int_707bae8c	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_707bae8c	comment	Half-Life: Alyx reveals that Combine computers run using "memory worms", processors made out of mutated brains with assorted creatures fused into it, such as an occasional rat.
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Wetware CPU / int_73b74949	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_73b74949	comment	Borderlands: In Borderlands 2, it's revealed that the Guardian Angel that serves as an Exposition Fairy in the game is not a sentient A.I. as she claims, but a Siren named Angel hooked up to machines and constantly pumped with Eridium by her father Handsome Jack as a tool for his schemes. One of the boss battles in Borderlands 3 is against Gigamind, a Maliwan AI that turns out to be a Brain in a Jar piloting a robotic suit. Later in the game, you encounter weaker versions called NOGs which act as support units for Maliwan troops.
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Wetware CPU / int_7559ae0b	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_7559ae0b	comment	Dune: Because humanity found out the hard way that A.I. Is a Crapshoot, the Orange Catholic Bible states, "Thou shalt not make a machine in the image of a human mind." To pick up the slack, rich elites rely on mentats, who are humans capable of nigh-superhuman powers of mental calculation, essentially turning themselves into organic computers. Paul himself has mentat conditioning. Additionally, the Titans of the Legends of Dune prequels are essentially preserved brains in warmech cases. Navigators of the Spacing Guild rely on mental conditioning and tankfuls of spice to essentially turn their minds into prescient navigation computers for their long-range ship that travel the galaxy by folding space.
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Wetware CPU / int_7668653a	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_7668653a	comment	Mass Effect 2: Joker expresses a fear of this regarding giving control of the Normandy to EDI. It's revealed that the Reapers are composed of organic biomass in a mechanical framework, and their periodic slaughter of all sentient life in the galaxy is actually their reproductive cycle. In the Overlord DLC, Cerberus attempts to gain control of the geth by creating one of these, but the ensuing "hybrid intelligence" immediately goes berserk because he was forced into the experiment, and is in constant agony from the Sensory Overload.
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Wetware CPU / int_76dc8764	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_76dc8764	comment	In The Tribe, the Technos are carrying out a secret project by kidnapping various people and hooking them up to an inescapable virtual reality environment for Ram's private enjoyment. The hordes of respawning mooks he fights off are created from those people's minds.
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Wetware CPU / int_77677ed1	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_77677ed1	comment	The End of Flesh expansion to Sword of the Stars 2 adds these. The lore explanation is that they are meant to emulate the abilities of the Loa without actually using AI.
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Wetware CPU / int_79e4edd2	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_79e4edd2	comment	In Crying Suns, the depraved Dr. Landa of House Kosh-Buendia has wired the brains of children into battle robots and plugged another childâ€™s brain into the controls of a battleship.
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Wetware CPU / int_7ad6690e	comment	Hector the cyborg from Saturn 3 is controlled by three brains stacked in a tube full of bubbling water.
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Wetware CPU / int_7d8a7b44	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_7d8a7b44	comment	The title of Demon Four refers to a miniature submarine controlled by the brain of a soldier who was killed in World War III.
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Wetware CPU / int_7dad3a85	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_7dad3a85	comment	Total Recall 2070: Alpha-class androids (still on the prototype stage) use cultivated neurons. Alpha technology is not yet fully understood, as android inspector Farve experienced weird "connections" with people under an Alpha mind-control implant.
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Wetware CPU / int_7f5bc680	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_7f5bc680	comment	In the various Fallout games, there are a number of different examples, largely in the form of taking a Brain in a Jar and wiring it into a robot. The most common example, found across multiple games, are "Robobrains"; a round, tank-like body on tracks with clawed tentacles for arms and a Brain in a Jar for its head. The official line about the origins of said brains in-universe in early games is that they use brains taken from chimpanzees or other primates, with the use of human brains being a slanderous but persistent rumor. Later games revealed that, yes, human brains were used quite extensively, which led to the development of the other brain-preserving robot types encountered in the game. Cyberdogs are cybernetically augmented dogs controlled by placing a canine Brain in a Jar in the augmented skull. Like Robobrains, they show up in multiple games. In Fallout, the Master is a mass of Meat Moss that has physically integrated itself into the computers and electrical systems of a Vault, allowing it to control the machinery of the Vault as an extension of its own body. The Big Bad of Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is the Collector, a super-computer given enhanced processing powers by plugging a dozen different human brains into it. However, in typical Fallout Black Comedy, the quality of these brains is questionable — one of them is a porn star's! The player can cripple the Collector by destroying its integrated brains, and even receive the option to be integrated into it in order to take control of the super-computer and its robot armies. Fallout: New Vegas: Mr. House essentially turned himself into this, to make himself effectively immortal. When the Courier first meets him, he's a bust of his smarmy grin projected onto a massive screen. When you really meet him, he is an Abomination,note Literally. The "Purifier" and "Abominable" perks stack on him a withered phantom in the shape of a man sealed within a life-sustaining sarcophagus. The Think Tank of the Old World Blues DLC, robots controlled by the brains of Mad Scientists so that said scientists can conduct experiments After the End. They also do this to the Courier against their will, although the Courier somehow manages to remain fully self-aware without their brain, much to the Think Tank's surprise (though it's explained by the gun shot you revived that the start of the game). Eventually leading to the bizarre situation where the Courier has a conversation with their own Brain in a Jar and can even hit on it. Far Harbor, an expansion pack for Fallout 4, has the player discover Vault 118, which is inhabited by a small population of rich people who tried to achieve immortality by becoming Robobrains.
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Wetware CPU / int_7f87dafc	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_7f87dafc	comment	The Boosted Men from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED are considered 'Biological CPUs' rather than personnel. Through experimentation and performance-enhancing drugs, their combat abilities are far superior than their successors the Extended from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. However, this also made them much more psychotic, and they require extensive maintenance outside combat and are generally completely non-functional in human society.
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Wetware CPU / int_7fcddc41	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_7fcddc41	comment	The Journeyman Project: The first two games in the series utilize electronic "BioChips" which can be collected to employ certain functions. The second game goes on to explain that the "wetware" part is composed of "neuro-synaptic polymer gel", and Arthur also turns out to the be prototype of this technology in one of the time zones you visit.
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Wetware CPU / int_81692f99	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: In the much-reviled Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Spock's Brain", the autonomic brain functions used to maintain the circulation of a body are used to control the life support system of an Underground City. The Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Dead Stop" has an automated space station that rapidly repairs ships for a fee in certain resources... and a hidden fee in kidnapping one of the passengers in an "accident" to use their brainpower to keep itself running. Star Trek: Voyager has neural gel-packs to assist in certain computer functions that require that organic touch. The Borg Queen is one of these; not merely an ambassador like Locutus, but a being functioning as the hub of the collective consciousness. The Spore Drive from Star Trek: Discovery allows a starship to travel through a subspace mycelial network. It requires an intelligent being to interface with the fungus and navigate the network — first a giant alien tardigrade, then Lieutenant Stamets (the drive's inventor) after he injected himself with tardigrade DNA. In the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach", the people of Majalis require a living being to be plugged in to their planetary computer systems to maintain a habitable environment on their world.
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Wetware CPU / int_834197b2	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_834197b2	comment	In the Horus Heresy novel The First Heretic, a marine explains to a civilian why they're attacking a planet that has robots: according to him, "mineral" intelligences always have thought patterns incompatible with organic ones, which inevitably leads to rebellion.
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Wetware CPU / int_84986bf9	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_84986bf9	comment	RuneScape has Barrelchest,◊ a giant robot crafted by a Mad Scientist from barrels, ship components, and a Brain in a Jar. Its creator, Mi-Gor, uses human brains in a number of other necromantic and magitek experiments as well.
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Wetware CPU / int_8526b8b9	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_8526b8b9	comment	In There and Back Again, this is the Resurrectionists' hat. They only do it to clones (and unintelligent animals) for ethical reasons; that doesn't much help the protagonists, however, as nearly all of them are clones of each other...
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Wetware CPU / int_86c3beca	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_86c3beca	comment	In Girl Genius, Agatha and crew manage to stop a malicious, sentient runaway train — but Brother Ulm ends up at death's door. They end up saving him by repurposing his brain as the "autopilot" of their new train. He's surprisingly okay with the arrangement. In fact, when they offer him the option to be reinstalled in a humanoid body later, he declines.
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Wetware CPU / int_876ac9fe	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_876ac9fe	comment	Carbon computers in Among the Chosen are carried by female, transhuman hosts by means of artificial pregnancy. It is not clear whether the computers have personalities of their own or if they are just extenuations of their hosts.
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Wetware CPU / int_8a1c34ad	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_8a1c34ad	comment	In Axe Cop, Wolver Man's cyborg pet Iron Spider Cannon is driven by a mouse brain wired into its circuits.
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Wetware CPU / int_8a39c411	comment	In the universe of the Hyperion Cantos, this is one of several ways to attain AI, through the creation of artificial brains and DNA-based computers (other AIs had created the TechnoCore). Many of these control spacecraft, including The Consul's yacht (that particular AI also has a sense of humor, providing much comic relief). It is also revealed that the TechnoCore uses the processing power of every single person plugged into the Internet for their calculations. Please note, the last installment of the Cantos was published in 1997â€“two years before the release of The Matrix.
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Wetware CPU / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: The Boosted Men from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED are considered 'Biological CPUs' rather than personnel. Through experimentation and performance-enhancing drugs, their combat abilities are far superior than their successors the Extended from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. However, this also made them much more psychotic, and they require extensive maintenance outside combat and are generally completely non-functional in human society. In Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, some characters theorize that the NT-D uses a combination of the psychoframe and the pilot as a living (and highly efficient) battlefield processor. It works extremely well, but appears to verge a little too close to Ax-Crazy at times. In Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, the Alaya-Vijnana is a Brain/Computer Interface that allows for one to pilot Gundams and similar Mobile Suit Frames with exact precision and spatial awareness using their own minds, with the physical control layouts of these Mobile Suits only really needed for reload/firing weapons and thruster controls. The only issue with this is that the "Node" component is fused directly to the spinal columns of still-developing prepubescent kids: and that's only if the procedure is successful due to the High-Mortality Rate that each individual surgery carries with it where the best failure option is to wind up completely paralyzed. Mikazuki Augus himself had underwent the surgery three times.
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Wetware CPU / int_8ac81016	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_8ac81016	comment	Sleep Dealer: Zig-Zagged to the point that it overlaps with Cyborg Helmsman — the world of Sleep Dealer has no advanced robotic intelligences and automation isn't even discussed because it's cheaper and easier to hire workers in poor countries with a basic Brain/Computer Interface to operate mechanical avatars thousands of miles away than it is to program a computer to perform complex tasks like building a skyscraper or taking care of a human child. Every robot nanny, orange picker, or taxi driver in wealthy nations is directly operated by a worker in a cybernetic sweatshop somewhere in the global south.
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Wetware CPU / int_8c291bdb	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_8c291bdb	comment	The aliens from Skyline want human brains for this reason, as far as we can tell.
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Wetware CPU / int_8d7d0626	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_8d7d0626	comment	The Cyberax arc of Bugs is basically The Matrix, only without the need for it, as the wetware is clinically dead.
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Wetware CPU / int_8d8157e0	comment	Lexx's 790-model cyborgs consist of robotic heads attached to the decapitated bodies of executed convicts. A small cube of human brain tissue in the head is used to interface with the body.
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Wetware CPU / int_8db36f7	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_8db36f7	comment	RoboCop was made specifically to compete with the ED-209 in RoboCop (1987), which was fully robotic. The human element of Robocop would allow him to have better judgment. It is successful because the ED-209's AI proves to be... faulty. Ironically, RoboCop turned out to be not so controllable (having a conscience and all) that OCP attempted to heavily condition his replacements in RoboCop 2, leading to a repeat of the ED-209 problem when the people chosen weren't all that stable to begin with.
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Wetware CPU / int_8fda7950	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_8fda7950	comment	Known Space short story "Becalmed in Hell" has the brain jar of Eric Donovan,note a Shout-Out to the classic science fiction/horror story "Donovan's Brain" who was mortally wounded in an accident, installed in a spaceship designed to explore Venus. Larry Niven wrote several other stories featuring either Eric or someone in the same situation; at least one of these involved a philosophical discussion on whether or not they were still "people" (Niven's ultimate answer: they are).
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Wetware CPU / int_924bb56e	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_924bb56e	comment	In Dollhouse, people sent to "the Attic" have their brains networked to make Rossum's supercomputer.
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Wetware CPU / int_9472b00d	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_9472b00d	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, some characters theorize that the NT-D uses a combination of the psychoframe and the pilot as a living (and highly efficient) battlefield processor. It works extremely well, but appears to verge a little too close to Ax-Crazy at times.
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Wetware CPU / int_95226eb6	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_95226eb6	comment	Cyberpunk 2020 has full-body conversions in which extreme transhumanists go beyond simply upgrading the human body and opt to replace it altogether, transplanting their brains into a mechanical body. Since Cybernetics Eat Your Soul, society tends to look down on this, branding "full borgs" as "Metalheads" and no longer seeing them as human.
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Wetware CPU / int_95e4bed	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_95e4bed	comment	In Sequential Art, Quinten R&D has four "organic processors". Unusual in that they aren't Brain in a Jar type, but Little Bit Beastly squirrel girls with radio-implants linking them into Hive Mind called "Think Tank". Also, this provides some sort of Cyberspace interface with true computer AI. They still have free will, if somewhat brainwashed.
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Wetware CPU / int_98670fed	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_98670fed	comment	In Tom Strong, there are slave merchants that sell human (and alien) body parts as ship controllers. He mentions that humans started doing this in the middle of the twenty-first century.
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Wetware CPU / int_9a7088bc	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_9a7088bc	comment	In the much-reviled Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Spock's Brain", the autonomic brain functions used to maintain the circulation of a body are used to control the life support system of an Underground City.
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Wetware CPU / int_9a7a61a	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_9a7a61a	comment	In Sonic the Comic, Dr. Robotnik's plot during the buildup to issue #100 involves connecting Sonic the Hedgehog's allies the Emerald Hill Folk to a machine to form a gigantic wetware CPU.
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Wetware CPU / int_9c0c6d38	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_9c0c6d38	comment	Additionally, the Titans of the Legends of Dune prequels are essentially preserved brains in warmech cases.
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Wetware CPU / int_9ecd1e02	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_9ecd1e02	comment	In the Nightside series, the Collector is served by a small army of robots built with Cat Girl features and directed by living cat brains.
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Wetware CPU / int_9fcc73d7	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_9fcc73d7	comment	Roar of the LION: This is how Inori creates her Extermination Armors. Her latest one is powered by her own daughter Virtue.
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Wetware CPU / int_a0f65e03	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_a0f65e03	comment	Micronauts (IDW): The Biotrons are incredibly powerful machines, but need to interface with an organic being to unlock the full spectrum of their abilities.
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Wetware CPU / int_a2a386c9	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_a2a386c9	comment	This is common in Orion's Arm, though the prevailing idea is that wetware can only get you past the second singularity or so. The lums of the Red Star 'M'Pire went and disproved that by creating the Silk God, a completely organic archailect possibly of the fourth toposophic. However, being the size of a solar system, it's still a lot less efficient than diamondoid-based inorganic fourth-toposophic 'J-nodes', which are only as big as large gas giants.
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Wetware CPU / int_a436779	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_a436779	comment	In The Egg Man, the titular character is a "Megabrain" who has had his brain grown to a grotesque size and adjusted to be used as a sort of computer server where the uploaded minds of Heaven, Inc.'s culstomers can enjoy an Artificial Afterlife.
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Wetware CPU / int_a825da3e	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: The psychosis crawler is strongly implied to be one of these. In fact, you can see the brain in the jar.
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Wetware CPU / int_aacd24cb	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_aacd24cb	comment	StarCraft: The Protoss Dragoons and Immortals are the broken bodies and brains of half-dead soldiers, wired into walking tanks so that they can continue to fight. These are directly inspired by Warhammer 40,000's Space Marine Dreadnoughts. The Adjutant was one originally. Female human, head connected to various wires and bits of machinery, presumably to aid in briefing the player in missions. It has been retconned to be entirely robotic, probably to make the "good guys" less squicky.
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Wetware CPU / int_aeac03f9	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_aeac03f9	comment	Metroid Dread has the Central Units, which serve as the control units of the seven E.M.M.I. units on ZDR. They have a brain covered with a metallic casing and a single eye, making them somewhat similar to Mother Brain. Despite their seemingly biological core, the X-parasite infestation halfway through the game changes nothing about them, implying that their brains and eye are entirely synthetic.
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Wetware CPU / int_b11e29d2	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_b11e29d2	comment	In Outlaw Star, Melfina serves as the navigation system of the titular ship. Fortunately, she has considerably more freedom than most wetware CPUs and can disconnect from the ship when it isn't in flight.
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Wetware CPU / int_b4996199	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_b4996199	comment	On a lighter note, the Spider-Man villain Silvermane, himself a cyborg at the time, is reduced to a head and then wired to a small toy car for extra mobility in The Superior Foes of Spider-Man.
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Wetware CPU / int_b85f0ced	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_b85f0ced	comment	In A Final Unity, the Unity Device requires living beings to join with it in order to stabilize and repair rips in the fabric of space.
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Wetware CPU / int_b9419bd1	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_b9419bd1	comment	In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the fact that Panchaea required this of three women (who are obviously still conscious of their fate when you find them) was one of the factors involved in Hugh Darrow's Sanity Slippage. In the DLC "The Missing Link", you witness the horrific process involved in creating them.
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Wetware CPU / int_babeae6a	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_babeae6a	comment	Played with in Godzilla vs. Kong: This film's version of Mechagodzilla is supposed to be operated by a human controller through a cybernetic interface. However, when Mechagodzilla is activated, the human operator is rapidly disposed of, and Mechagodzilla goes on a rampage through Hong Kong. It comes out later that Mechagodzilla is actually being controlled by what's left of Ghidorah, who was not-quite-completely killed by Godzilla in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). So Mechagodzilla is in fact being controlled by an organic entity — just not the entity that its builders thought would be in control.
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Wetware CPU / int_bc848d30	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_bc848d30	comment	In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Welcome to the Chum Bucket", when SpongeBob refuses to work for Plankton after Krabs lost his contract in a poker game, Plankton puts his brain in a robot chef. It's funny how Plankton doesn't consider that a robot with SpongeBob's brain would be just as stubborn as SpongeBob.
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Wetware CPU / int_bcadd7cb	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_bcadd7cb	comment	The Protoss Dragoons and Immortals are the broken bodies and brains of half-dead soldiers, wired into walking tanks so that they can continue to fight. These are directly inspired by Warhammer 40,000's Space Marine Dreadnoughts.
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Wetware CPU / int_bcb32dc6	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun: Cyborgs are brains in jars that are plugged into modified drones. Brains scooped from healthy adults have a tendency to go mad from the radical shift in perception and the effects of all the drugs pumped into them, so the corps that make cyborgs prefer to use the brains of either clones or children. At a less creepy level, the game's lore and mechanics make it clear that, outside of once-in-a-lifetime godlike AI like Deus, the limits of autonomous computer technology fall far short of what the best human minds can do. A metahuman decker with brain implants (and maybe some drugs) plugged into a cyberdeck can run rings around any software agent in the Matrix, and a metahuman rigger with the right implants (and drugs) will slaughter any autonomous drone in physical combat.
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Wetware CPU / int_bd67c74c	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_bd67c74c	comment	The Mi-Go in CthulhuTech use human brains like this. The consciousnesses inside them still function, however, and are allowed to form social networks so as to remain sane and productive. You just know this'll come back to bite those aliens in their collectively non-existent ass someday.
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Wetware CPU / int_bed3f0a	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_bed3f0a	comment	In Ilivais X, the Phonos Weapons (which include the titular mech) are supposed to use their pilots like this. While they CAN be used with motion control, they tend to be controlled via mind synchronization. The four pilots are altered to be fragile, intelligent, and highly emotionally derailed, because the intent is that they stay in their unit until they are destroyed (which, given their effective regeneration and the pilots' immortality, may well never happen), turning into sentient processors for their machines.
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Wetware CPU / int_bf3d385b	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_bf3d385b	comment	In Phantom 2040, Maxwell Madison was murdered only to have his memories downloaded into a computer, which his wife uses/abuses to resurrect him in the body of several successive biots. Most attempt to commit "suicide" than stay with the psychotic woman, however.
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Wetware CPU / int_c43df4d8	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Daleks themselves are basically squid-like aliens from the planet Skaro who are permanently encased in a virtually indestructible R2-unit. As the Doctor says, a Cyberman is "a human brain jammed inside a cybernetic body, with a heart of steel." The process of "cyber-conversion" (and the state of existing as a Cyberman) is so painful that they have to have all emotions and pain receptors turned off. A common way of defeating them in the revival is to find a way to turn their feelings (emotional and/or physical) back on, which almost always leads to immediate self-termination. "The Deadly Assassin" reveals that the minds of dying Time Lords are transferred to "The Matrix" so as to forecast future developments. The principle's the same, but it's a lot less grisly. Somehow, the Master got hold of the Matrix and beamed one such development — the assassination of the retiring President — into the Doctor's mind... "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" gives us the Peking Homunculus, which is powered by the brain of a pig — a particularly vicious pig. In "Logopolis", it's implied the Logopolitans interface much more intimately and directly with their computers. They also have gigantic brains protruding from the back of their heads. "Frontios" has a controversially horrific scene involving a digging machine controlled by a severed human head. This was toned down from the script, which had the entire machine assembled from human body parts. The novelization offers no such kindness and describes it in graphic detail. There's another Dalek-aligned one in "Remembrance of the Daleks". It's explicitly stated that one Dalek side chose a child because a child's imagination, fueled with data from their battle computers, was the only thing irrational enough to break the unending logical stalemate against other Dalek battle computers. The people on Satellite Five in "The Long Game" have ports in their heads to input information and process it. Adam, a temporary companion, gets one himself in an attempt to take detailed technical and historical data back to the "present" for personal financial gain, which is why the Doctor throws him out of the TARDIS. In the follow-up episode, the Controller used to control the operations of Satellite Five worked on the same principle, only that was her entire life; she was installed at five years old. "The Girl in the Fireplace" has this as the Monsters of the Week's aim with the titular girl. They believe that her brain is what is needed to repair their ship, and specifically her brain when she is the same age as the ship. In "Spyfall", Daniel Barton's goal in the plan he's working on with the Master and the Kasaavin is to turn the majority of humanity into living hard drives by having the Kasaavin rewrite their DNA.
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Wetware CPU / int_c5c65a23	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_c5c65a23	comment	The Biodrones from X-COM: Terror from the Deep look an awful lot like brains mounted in flying saucers. They are. Human brains, literally butchered into obedience, and fitted with a sonic weapon where their voice box used to be so they can scream their targets to death.
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Wetware CPU / int_c5d05a73	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_c5d05a73	comment	"Cabinet Man" by Lemon Demon is about a man driven by "electric desires" to turn himself into a half-organic, half-mechanical arcade cabinet.
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Wetware CPU / int_c72021c5	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_c72021c5	comment	At the end of Deus Ex, you are given the choice of merging your character's consciousness with an AI called Helios.
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Wetware CPU / int_d109f322	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_d109f322	comment	In Andromeda, the Consensus of Parts used human neural matter to satisfy the requirement for organic intuition to navigate the Slipstream.
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Wetware CPU / int_d2f4b8ae	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_d2f4b8ae	comment	Battle Angel Alita, being a futuristic Cyberpunk depiction of society rife with cyborgs and body enhancement technology of all sorts, has the Brain Incubator, made of the brains of the inhabitants of Tiphares/Zalem harvested when they undergo the initiation ceremony, giving them full citizenship rights — and a brain bio-chip.
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Wetware CPU / int_d4263e4c	type	Wetware CPU
Wetware CPU / int_d4263e4c	comment	The Wild Cards novel Double Solitaire has Dr. Tachyon's Ax-Crazy grandson (in a stolen body) turned over to the Network to become the lobotomized organic processor for a mining machine, in order to pay off the debts of the guy whose body he swiped.
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Wetware CPU / int_d461f757	comment	In Battlestar Galactica (2003), the Cylons' ships — or at least their FTL drives — are controlled by "Hybrids", which from the waist upwards look like women who lie in a tub full of goo hooked up to cables that look a lot like the ones in The Matrix; Razor establishes that they were created by experiments involving vivisected humans. The Hybrid constantly babbles a stream of partly-technical, partly-prophetic-sounding, partly-nonsense words, but doesn't seem conscious in any real sense most of the time. When the Cylons give the order to make an FTL jump, the Hybrid gasps "Jump!" orgasmically as the ship does so. When such an order is about to be given at a very significant moment:
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Wetware CPU / int_d4642985	comment	Conjoiner drives in the Revelation Space Series always contain a Conjoiner brain, who controls the reaction. Another Conjoiner who almost became one likens the experience to spending your life playing a challenging video game. However, the Conjoiners keep it quiet because they expect other humans to react badly.
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Wetware CPU / int_d4d8ce5f	comment	In Deadlands: Hell on Earth, automata are machines with zombie brains (controlled by a demon) wired in as the CPU. Cyborgs are Harrowed (ensouled undead), some of whom go so far as the Brain in a Jar route.
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Wetware CPU / int_d59d9e99	comment	In R-Type, the R-9C War-Head is piloted by a biological computer made of amputated pilots linked onto the spacecrafts, the pilots are contained within a capsule known as Angel Pac. The R-9/0 Ragnarok is also speculated to have used a 23-year-old girl stuck in a biologically 14-year-old body as its biological computer, in which the military denied the speculation.
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Wetware CPU / int_d5e9cf36	comment	In XCOM 2, it is revealed that the Commander was being used as a living tactical processor by the aliens.
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Wetware CPU / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex features this in multiple ways: In episode 2, "Proof of Recklessness: TESTATION", a dead man's cyberbrain is wired into a HAW 206 Tachikoma-style tank. The tank goes berserk, and Section 9 must stop it. The CEO of an organ-cloning facility ended up choosing to keep his brain stored in a miniature, boxy robot rather than moving to a humanoid chassis. In a subversion, an AI-controlled Tachikoma fakes having a real brain inside his chassis to distract police from the child they're questioning. To some degree, full-body replacement cyborgs qualify as this. The only thing that remains of their body is a brain inside a human-shaped chassis. As mentioned by Batou at one point, the bodies they use are largely impersonal objects. He advised the female Major that she should upgrade to a male chassis for improved strength. In one episode, when he needs some additional processing power, Ishikawa co-opts the brains of some senior citizens at a pachinko parlor. He then rigs the machines to temporarily increase their payouts as recompense.
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Wetware CPU / int_d7e4b70e	comment	In Gantz, the titular character is a sort of spherical computer with a comatose, hairless man inside it. Near the end of the manga, some Sufficiently Advanced Aliens claim that the man was just an ordinary human who was cloned to operate the sphere.
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Wetware CPU / int_d966b18e	comment	From Otherland, the Other is the brain of a telepathic human infant jacked into a computer and used as its operating system. Further, additional unborn fetal brains were harvested and stuffed in there with it to give it additional "capacity". It's half-insane from the cruelty and deprivation of its existence, and seeks a way to turn against its masters.
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Wetware CPU / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City: Braintrust is a crime lord with a robot body and a Brain in a Jar for a head. He also has telekinetic powers. A.T.A.C.C. is a seven-foot-tall robot bristling with firearms and powered by a Brain in a Jar inside.
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Wetware CPU / int_e035dacb	comment	In Technobabylon, organic nanomachines called "wetware" are used for many different purposes, from hacking to genetic engineering.
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Wetware CPU / int_e11715a2	comment	The Perfect Run: Ryan's Plymoth has a Genius-grown, non-sentient brain in it to meet its processing needs. Multiple people who see it are horrified, assuming Ryan murdered some random person for an autopilot. Ryan dryly points out that the brain is obviously non-human.
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Wetware CPU / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS: GURPS Steam-Tech has a section on how, exactly, one might create AI with Steampunk technology. This is the final option, with the comment "It's not cheating unless you get caught." GURPS Reign of Steel: The Denver zonemind was forced to do this after the US Air Force crippled it in a Heroic Sacrifice strike during the Final War. For obvious reasons, it keeps this hidden from the other zoneminds.
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Wetware CPU / int_e5dc2763	comment	In SOMA, the structure-gel has the mysterious ability to allow biological entities to fuse with technology.
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Wetware CPU / int_e5de447c	comment	X-COM: The Biodrones from X-COM: Terror from the Deep look an awful lot like brains mounted in flying saucers. They are. Human brains, literally butchered into obedience, and fitted with a sonic weapon where their voice box used to be so they can scream their targets to death. In XCOM 2, it is revealed that the Commander was being used as a living tactical processor by the aliens.
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Wetware CPU / int_e66e059e	comment	The player character in Urban Assault, is a member of the Resistance who's part of a select group that had their nervous systems physically bonded to powerful battle bases called Host Stations. This process is irreversible.
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Wetware CPU / int_e6c59cc4	comment	The Strogg from Quake II couple their computers with organic beings, including a factory that mashes humans into Stroyent that has a creature's digestive system working as part of it and a gigantic brain with cybernetic implants in it as their main communication system processor. They're also fond of "Stroggifying" enemies in a method more brutal than the Borg, implanting cybernetics via surgery without any anesthetic whatsoever.
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Wetware CPU / int_ea377bc0	comment	The spider-like Cortex Reaver mech in System Shock plugs the head of the near- or recently-deceased into their abdomen to use as processing power. The body is left to hang by the neck underneath.
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Wetware CPU / int_eb095079	comment	In Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, General Skun-ka'pe uses the disembodied brain of one with "The Gift" to control the computer systems on his ship and help him find the Toys of Power.
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Wetware CPU / int_ee04f49a	comment	Deus Ex Universe: At the end of Deus Ex, you are given the choice of merging your character's consciousness with an AI called Helios. One ending of Deus Ex: Invisible War involves this happening to everyone. In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the fact that Panchaea required this of three women (who are obviously still conscious of their fate when you find them) was one of the factors involved in Hugh Darrow's Sanity Slippage. In the DLC "The Missing Link", you witness the horrific process involved in creating them.
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Wetware CPU / int_ee8e63ed	comment	Angels One and Two, the villains of Earthsearch. The human protagonists, who have been raised by the Angels, eventually discover that all such computers go mad with power. In Season 2, a concern is raised that the Angels may even have incorporated themselves into their brains.
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Wetware CPU / int_ee985816	comment	In Mahoromatic, the Keepers use the brains of "scrapped" cyborgs for facility management. Said brains are still conscious.
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Wetware CPU / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager has neural gel-packs to assist in certain computer functions that require that organic touch.
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Wetware CPU / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: Metroid has the Mother Brain herself, who was originally a Chozo supercomputer before turning against them to side with the Space Pirates. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has the Aurora Units, highly intelligent beings stored in liquid containers. Unfortunately, being part biological leaves them wide open to Phazon... Metroid Fusion has the B.O.X, a security drone that has an organic CPU. It goes rogue and Samus blows its casing apart, which allows the X parasite to infect it. Metroid Dread has the Central Units, which serve as the control units of the seven E.M.M.I. units on ZDR. They have a brain covered with a metallic casing and a single eye, making them somewhat similar to Mother Brain. Despite their seemingly biological core, the X-parasite infestation halfway through the game changes nothing about them, implying that their brains and eye are entirely synthetic.
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Wetware CPU / int_f0ecf5db	comment	In Mindjammer, 2-space navigation requires a Sapient Ship, but the Venu Empire has religious prohibitions against AI, so they wire up human "brainjacks" who inevitably go insane.
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Wetware CPU / int_f189f12e	comment	In Vega Strike, "Pseudo-AI" is used for most tasks where a "true" AI would be too expensive and a simple computer isn't creative enough. "PAI Wetware" is one of legal goods, a thousand times or so cheaper than AI cores. The Rlaan, as proponents of Organic Technology, carry it further and creep out the humans by equipping armed drones with pet brains.
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Wetware CPU / int_f3ff4a44	comment	Walter can step inside Automan and temporarily fuse with him.
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Wetware CPU / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Epsilon III — the planet which the B5 station orbits — houses a technologically advanced installation called the Great Machine which required a living being to act as a central processing unit. In return the Great Machine rejuvenates the being acting as a CPU and greatly extends his or her lifespan, and through both communication relays and holographic technology allows the person to still move about not only around the machine but on orbiting space stations as well. Shadow starships all used captured lesser races members as pilots fused with the hull. Which enables them to be disabled by telepaths. After spending any amount of time in the machine the pilot's original personality is destroyed and while Shadows can easily remove the interfaces implanted into the pilots, it is very difficult for younger races to do so.
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Wetware CPU / int_f7c31cf2	comment	In Sonic the Comic â€“ Online!, Robotnik has become part of a Drakon super-computer and has launched a massive invasion of Mobius in a bid to become the planet's proxy ruler under control of the Drakons.
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Wetware CPU / int_f9603330	comment	Gamma World has Think Tanks, which are human brains connected to computer systems.
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Wetware CPU / int_fa5e90fd	comment	A number of villain groups in City of Heroes use human brains to control their robots, among them being Arachnos, Malta, and Nemesis.
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Wetware CPU / int_fbec28e2	comment	While not exactly central to the plot, this imagery is used in Rock and Rule when showing the computer Mok is using to calculate the summoning of a monster. Then again, perhaps the fact that we're shown its partially organic nature at the same time as it deceives him into believing that the summoning is irreversible isn't a coincidence at all...
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Wetware CPU / int_fd74a791	comment	Parodied in the Doctor Who New Adventures novel SLEEPY, in which the Mad Scientist who has built a telepathic AI insists that neural nets are completely unnecessary. Apparently, one of his rivals tried to create an intelligent computer by hooking a cat's brain to a mainframe and got "a computer that wants to play with string and sit on your newspaper".
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Wetware CPU / int_fd7de151	comment	In Psycho-Pass, the Sibyl system is a network of sociopathic brains.
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Wetware CPU / int_fd8221d2	comment	The word Computer used to mean a human being whose job was to compute. The earliest recorded use of the term is from the 17th century; Wikipedia has an article here.
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Wetware CPU / int_fea6b293	comment	BattleTech downplays this. The giant robot BattleMechs are linked to the pilots by a neural interface that allows the pilot's own sense of balance to keep the 2-legged machines upright and moving smoothly. The Enhanced Imaging implants used by some Clanners also feed the Mech's sensor inputs into the pilot's nervous system, and they're required for piloting ProtoMechs. Unfortunately, they also have some degenerative effects that usually result in insanity or death after a few years.
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Wetware CPU / int_ff9ca30	comment	Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has the Aurora Units, highly intelligent beings stored in liquid containers. Unfortunately, being part biological leaves them wide open to Phazon...
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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Phantasy Star II (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Phantasy Star Universe (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
R-Type (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
SOMA (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Stasis: Bone Totem (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Technobabylon (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Thaumcraft (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Vega Strike (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
XCOM 2 (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Autodale (Web Animation) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Among the Chosen (Webcomic) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
He Is a Good Boy (Webcomic) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Sequential Art (Webcomic) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Orion's Arm (Website) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Rock and Rule / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
wetwarecpu	sameAs	Wetware CPU
Sword of the Stars (Video Game) / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU

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