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[[File:KaranSjet.jpg|link=Homeworld|frame|Karan's not a [[Spaceship Girl]], but [[Mission Control|she]] does [[Computer Voice|come]] very [[Unusual User Interface|close]].]]
{{quote|"PAIs tend to be able to present more natural user interfaces than the expert systems they compete with, tending to be at least vaguely self-aware, and much more responsive to and on emotional levels. In particular, niche market and custom built models are limited only by legislation requiring that entities surpassing a [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|specified set of standardized metrics]] cannot be considered property, and must be registered as either [[Designer Babies|custom]] [[Truly Single Parent|children]] or custom dependent employees. While the difference is clear for low end models, standards aside, most will agree that the [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|line]] between a [[Brain In a Jar|high end PAI]] and a designer [[Hollywood Cyborg|cyborg human]] is exceptionally blurry."
|''[[Vega Strike]]'' description of the [http://wiki.vega-strike.org/Terminology:Artificial_Intelligence#PAI:_Pseudo_Artificial_Intelligences Pseudo Artificial Intelligences]}}
▲{{quote|"PAIs tend to be able to present more natural user interfaces than the expert systems they compete with, tending to be at least vaguely self-aware, and much more responsive to and on emotional levels. In particular, niche market and custom built models are limited only by legislation requiring that entities surpassing a [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|specified set of standardized metrics]] cannot be considered property, and must be registered as either [[Designer Babies|custom]] [[Truly Single Parent|children]] or custom dependent employees. While the difference is clear for low end models, standards aside, most will agree that the [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|line]] between a [[Brain In a Jar|high end PAI]] and a designer [[Hollywood Cyborg|cyborg human]] is exceptionally blurry."|''[[Vega Strike]]'' description of the [http://wiki.vega-strike.org/Terminology:Artificial_Intelligence#PAI:_Pseudo_Artificial_Intelligences Pseudo Artificial Intelligences]}}
Wetware refers to a biological system and typically refers to the human brain and nervous system. It can also come to mean bacterial computers and organic based processing agents.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' features the Magi, biocomputers whose wetware are [[Brain Uploading|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.
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* In ''[[Tom Strong]]'', there are slave merchants that sell human (and alien) body parts as ship controllers. He mentions humans started doing that [[You Bastard|in the middle of the twenty-first century]].
* In ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'', Dr. Robotnik's plot during the buildup to issue #100 involved connecting [[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'s allies the Emerald Hill Folk to a machine to form a gigantic wetware CPU.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Minerva from the 1990s-2000s [[Self-Insert Fic]] cycle ''[[Legion's Quest]]'' straddles the line between this and [[Spaceship Girl]]. She starts off as a pure [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] controlling Legion's ship, the ''Calypso'', but in a story late in the cycle is given a fully organic body by a whimsical mage. Although it's never explicitly said whether the AI operates the body like a drone or if the living girl now mentally controls the ship, it's strongly hinted that the latter is the case.
== [[Film]] ==
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** The people in "The Long Game" have ports in their heads to input information and process it. Adam, a temporary companion, gets one himself, which is why The Doctor throws him out of the TARDIS.
** "The Talons of Weng Chiang" gives us the Peking Homunculus, which is powered by the brain of a pig. A particularly ''vicious'' pig.
* The much-reviled episode "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S3/E01 Spock's Brain|Spock's Brain]]" of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''.
** ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]'' had a space station that stole brains to keep itself running.
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' has neural gel-packs to assist in certain computer functions that require that organic touch.
* In ''[[Andromeda]]'' the Consensus of Parts used human neural matter to satisfy the requirement for organic intuition to navigate the [[Subspace or Hyperspace|Slipstream]].
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', the Shadow starships all used captured lesser races members as pilots fused with the hull.
* ''[[Lexx]]''{{'}}s 790-model cyborgs consist of robotic heads attached to the decapitated bodies of executed convicts. A small cube of human brain tissue is used to give the drone its higher functions, such as the capacity for a (rudimentary) personality.
* In ''[[Dollhouse]]'' {{spoiler|people sent to "the Attic" have their brains networked to make Rossum's supercomputer.}}
* The Cyberax arc of ''[[Bugs]]'' was basically [[The Matrix]], only without the need for it as the wetware is clinically dead.
* In the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica
{{quote|'''Hybrid''' (''crying out in apparent pain''): Mists of dreams drip along the nascent echo and love no more. End of line.
'''Number Five''': The Hybrid objects.
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