hardwired

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1. In computer jargon, a circuit is hardwired if it is built to perform a specific function and requires no outside instructions or program.

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“Hardwired” is often used loosely to refer to functions that are innate and unlearned in living systems: “The ability to perceive objects in a certain way appears to be hardwired into the brains of mammals.”

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Back then he asserted that people would be naturally comfortable with “robots with humanoid form that act like humans; the interface is hardwired in our brains,” and that “humans and robots can cooperate on tasks in close quarters in ways heretofore imaginable only in science fiction.”

From Los Angeles Times

Many researchers believe this trait is hardwired into our brains for evolutionary reasons.

From MarketWatch

Some are hardwired to pitch in; their hands feel itchy if they’re not chopping something.

From Salon

"It's actually good not to be as productive or active as you would be during the summer months because our bodies are biologically hardwired for rest during winter," she says.

From BBC

“But children, they come hardwired, and I don’t think you can predict that.”

From The Wall Street Journal