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medical health brain and nervous system disordersWhat does it mean if something is hard wired?
Hard-wired means the electrical cable comes furnished with the product and is physically connected or wired into the household wiring. The cable/cord supplied with these products cannot be cut off or the installer is unable to add additional wire to the existing cable.
Similarly, what are hardwired skills?
Definition of hardwired. 1 : implemented in the form of permanent electronic circuits also : connected or incorporated by or as if by permanent electrical connections a hardwired phone concepts of attractiveness may be universal and hardwired into the human brain — Jane E.
In this manner, what does it mean to be wired differently?
'Wired differently' is figurative speech (of course, everyone's brain cells are different from the next person), and it indeed means your way of thinking is different from what is normal. (Depending on the context, this can even be a derogatory term.)
The brain is hard-wired with connections, much like a skyscraper or airplane is hard-wired with electrical wiring. In the case of the brain, the connections are made by neurons that link the sensory inputs and motor outputs with centers in the various lobes of the cerebral cortex.