Augmented humans are human beings with varying degrees of augmentation made to their body. Augments go beyond implants (which are often removable and may/may not be helpful) or interface devices (which are removable). Murderbot states that augments work with machine-readable code written into human DNA; and this makes augments even capable of being infected with malware.[1]
Augments are “supposed to help humans do things they couldn’t do otherwise, like interface with the feed more completely or store memory archives" (but still less efficiently than a construct or bot) and typically ones that aren't feed interfaces are meant to correct physical injury/illness. Many augments are built into the brain.
'Spliced' is an informal term for being augmented. Despite Murderbot's tendency to separate them in its personal narration, most humans do not consider augmented humans to be especially distinct from unaugmented humans.[2]
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- ↑ "It deleted every part of targetControlSystem, treating it like killware, and it must have deleted the infected… code, or whatever it was. An alien code, in a form that didn’t make sense. Well, sort of sense. It must be using the same principle as the machine-readable code written into human DNA that was how things like augments worked, and constructs, and you could transfer malware that way if you weren’t filtering for it… Oh, shit." Chapter 19, Network Effect.
- ↑ Talking Murderbot With 'Network Effect' Author Martha Wells https://www.newsweek.com/network-effect-murderbot-diaries-martha-wells-novel-sanctuary-moon-1502150