title: The brain as a Darwin Machine creator: Calvin, William H. subject: Artificial Intelligence subject: Neuropsychology description: AMIDST 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. date: 1987-11 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/22/1/1987Nature.htm identifier: Calvin, William H. (1987) The brain as a Darwin Machine. [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/22/