The brain as a Darwin Machine
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For parallel computers to simulate our brains, we must face the fact that human beings have a better claim on the title Homo seriatim than Homo sapiens--we're more consistently serial than wise.
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Evolution studies how organisms change in relation to environments through genetics and through evolved phenotypic plasticity, some of which are evolutionary processes.
“evolution is the study of how organisms change in relation to their environments, not only by genetics but also by mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity that evolved by genetic evolution, including some that count as evolutionary processes in their own right”
From Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change (2014) · cites this paper as Calvin 1987
Some phenotypic plasticity mechanisms are themselves evolutionary processes.
“Some mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity count as evolutionary processes in their own right.”
From Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change (2014) · cites this paper as Calvin 1987
There is a long tradition of treating the immune system, brain development, learning, culture, and science as evolutionary processes adapting to current environments.
“Apart from the particular school of thought known as EP, there is a long tradition of thinking about the immune system, brain development, learning, culture, and science (as a particular form of culture) as evolutionary processes that result in adaptations to current environments according to their respective criteria of selection”
From Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change (2014) · cites this paper as Calvin 1987
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Cited by 126
- Authors
- Calvin, W. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Calvin, William H.
- ORCID
- Calvin, William H.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1987-11
- Volume
- 330
- Issue
- 6143
- Pages
- 33-34
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1992696472
- Cited by
- 126
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 0.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- CogPrints (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Cognitive Computing and Networks
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Psychiatry, Mental Health, Neuroscience
- Keywords
- brain simulation, parallel computing, serial processing, human cognition, Darwinian evolution, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Haplorhini, Brain, Computers, Biological Evolution, Humans, Models, Neurological, Models, Psychological
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