0 automatically thinking or behaving in a particular way:
1 built to work in a particular way that cannot be changed with new software:
This is a hard-wired, tamper-proof substitute for the software in more orthodox systems.
2 physically connected by wires for carrying a signal:
Class can be conducted wherever they are, via a wireless or hard-wired Internet connection.
Crandall Canyon was equipped with redundant, hard-wired phone systems for miners underground to communicate with the surface.
Perhaps the liability to neuroticism is relatively ' hard-wired ' and the magnitude of gene expression insensitive to environmental variation.
Dream production is an automatic, hard-wired, regularly activated feature of human brain function.
It seems that the threshold of pain perception is hard-wired into the brain.
The second possible distinction is that representations can be learned and reprogrammed, whereas instantiations are innate or hard-wired.
Quite diverse software programs can be run on this hardware, and, in terms of selecting among the broad cultural options faced, nothing is hard-wired.
While the user sets the first, the second is very complex and is hard-wired into the program.
Many patterns are hard-wired into our mind: we inherit actions and reactions that guarantee our survival.
They were, so to speak, hard-wired in human nature, although their proportionate strengths differed from one individual to the next.
