@misc{cogprints22, volume = {330}, month = {November}, title = {The brain as a Darwin Machine}, author = {William H. Calvin}, year = {1987}, pages = {33--34}, journal = {Nature}, url = {http://cogprints.org/22/}, 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.} }