creators_name: Calvin, William H. type: journalp datestamp: 1998-04-25 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:37 metadata_visibility: show title: The brain as a Darwin Machine ispublished: pub subjects: comp-sci-art-intel subjects: neuro-psy full_text_status: public abstract: 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 date_type: published publication: Nature volume: 330 pagerange: 33-34 refereed: TRUE citation: Calvin, William H. (1987) The brain as a Darwin Machine. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/22/1/1987Nature.htm