1998-04-25Z2011-03-11T08:53:37Zhttp://cogprints.org/id/eprint/22This item is in the repository with the URL: http://cogprints.org/id/eprint/221998-04-25ZThe brain as a Darwin MachineAMIDST all the hyperbole about thinking machines that has accompanied the emergence of large-scale parallel computers from their serial predecessors, we have begun to contemplate the prospect of simulating some of our brain's massive parallelism. But one immediately runs into a role reversal worthy of a Mozart opera: the most distinctively human higher brain functions are surprisingly serial.William H. Calvin