--- 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." altloc: - http://williamcalvin.com/1980s/1987Nature.htm chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Calvin given: William H. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1987-11 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-04-25 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/00/22 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 22 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/22/1/1987Nature.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: ~ lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:37 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 33-34 pubdom: FALSE publication: Nature publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:21:50 subjects: - comp-sci-art-intel - neuro-psy succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: The brain as a Darwin Machine type: journalp userid: 23 volume: 330