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Darwin Machines
I'm writing this because I've been obsessed with the theory of a Darwin Machine for nearly a year now and I haven't met anyone else who has heard of it. This is my attempt to summarize and share the theory that William Calvin laid out in "The Cerebral Code".
It took four years after Watson and Crick discovered the double helix for us to prove it was genetic material but we knew their discovery held promise because it fit within the constraints. The smallest unit of these are minicolumns, bundles of 80-120 neurons that run perpendicular to the layers of the brain, from the "top" to the "bottom" (or vice versa, it doesn't matter). The theory of Darwin Machines developed by William Calvin proposes that the brain, like life, implements evolution to search a near infinite problem space.
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