TY - GEN ID - cogprints22 UR - http://cogprints.org/22/ A1 - Calvin, William H. Y1 - 1987/11// N2 - 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. TI - The brain as a Darwin Machine SP - 33 AV - public EP - 34 ER -