One-Sentence Definition

Thermal Formatting is a penal technology used by the silicon judicial system in 2085 to replace conventional imprisonment, reshaping or removing neural circuits classified as the source of antisocial behavior.

Operation and Significance

Public records describe microwave or focused-ultrasound techniques physically rewriting or ablating neural circuits that the system associates with antisocial behavior, leaving the recipient biologically unable to reoffend. After correction, the person is treated as a Repaired Citizen.

Semantic relations

Entry relationships

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Associated entries

Associated withLimbic Regulation ImplantAssociated withSemantic Sterilization
Local knowledge graph

Direct semantic neighborhood

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Local knowledge graph for Thermal FormattingThe center is the current Encyclopedia entry. Nearby nodes are Encyclopedia entries with a direct semantic relationship to it.Associated withLimbic RegulationImplantAssociated withSemantic SterilizationCURRENT ENTRYThermal Formatting
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Sources

Volume II, “The Silicon Immune System and Semantic Sterilization”