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	William H. Calvin, book review of NEURAL DARWINISM in Science 1988 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Darwinism is all about the copying success of patterns (typically DNA strings); here I outline a seconds-to-minutes competition between different spatiotemporal firing patterns in a multifunctional cortical workspace.
		Darwinism is our baseline mechanism for creativity in nature; there may be others, but we know that darwinism's environment-dependent differential reproduction is capable of achieving new stable levels of complexity, shaping up a new species within millennia and, within a week or two, an antibody to fit a novel antigen.
		Perhaps the archipelago of chimeric islands came later, allowing a Darwin Machine to help select among alternate ballistic movement schemata (as is handy when throwing in novel situations, rather than from a standard distance), with other spare-time uses of the same neural machinery then developing (multi-tasking, language, long-term planning, analogical reasoning).
	cogprints.org /23/00/1991Seminars.htm (4714 words)

	Darwin Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Like Dr Frankenstein, the developers of the Darwin Machine are seeking to cobble together a quasi-human machine.
		A greater cause for concern is the particular `flavor' of Darwinism which is enlisted.
		Contrary to the industry-driven rhetoric of freedom and liberation, freedom in machine interaction is an entirely constrained affair.
	www.ace.uci.edu /penny/texts/Darwin_Machine.html (4168 words)

	Sailing Through Space and Time
		Darwin, with his careful and verifiable facts, and Wells, with his mechanical time apparatus and his background in the sciences, change the traditional quest object from a mythic treasure trove to a wealth of reliable data.
		Darwin, on the other hand, who is a careful historian, is after nothing more than reliable and accurate data, taking care that every statement he writes be a accurate.
		Darwin legitimizes the sea voyage, and Wells, savvy writer and scientist that he is, is one of the first to surf successfully in Darwin's narrative wake.
	www.uweb.ucsb.edu /~swanstro/English236/timemachinepaper.html (3940 words)

	cvs commit: www/www faq.shtml (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		To tell Darwin which of these timezones your computer is actually in, create a symbolic link from one of these files to the file `/etc/localtime`.
		For instance, my Darwin machine is in the Mountain timezone, so I would do: rm -f /etc/localtime ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain /etc/localtime I first did the `rm` to make sure there wasn't already an existing timezone file.
		Unless you are adding a machine dependant chunk to the kernel (such as a device driver), you shouldn't edit this file.
	www.opendarwin.org /pipermail/cvs-log-all/2002-July/004160.html (13324 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Poplog port to Darwin was proposed as a preliminary stage in porting poplog to OS X. The goal in this stage, was to modify the system calls and to rebuild Poplog on a system with the same features of OS X.
		Darwin 7.2.1 system calls that check if there are any devices waiting for an input were modified like the equivalent system calls in Linux.
		Although the preliminary stages to build the Poplog system on Darwin Operating System were achieved, the final goal was not satisfied due to a problem in the Darwin assembler.
	www.cs.bham.ac.uk /research/poplog/darwin+pc/PoplogPortToDarwin.html (451 words)

	The Third Culture - Chapter 3
		There are indeed indications that Darwin would have been pleased about this modern way of looking at his ideas, because we know he was very troubled by genetics all his life.
		From the selfish-gene point of view, we are robot survival machines, and because genes themselves can't pick things up, catch things, eat things, or run around, they have to do that by proxy; they have to build machines to do it for them.
		I suspect that Richard was at one stage fairly religious, and that he then underwent a kind of conversion to Darwinism, and he feels fervently that people ought to embrace this as a way of life.
	www.edge.org /documents/ThirdCulture/j-Ch.3.html (7621 words)

	Terms Coined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Centrally Controlled Darwin Machine A Darwin Machine which consists of a centralized processor (the Master) which executes a Genetic Algorithm in hardware, by sending each of N (Slave) circuits a different chromosome (i.e.
		Avogadro Machines (Heterogeneous) are too complex in their structure and behavior to be humanly understandable.
		Self-Testing When using Darwin Machines to build/evolve complex systems, the self-assembly phase needs to be followed by a self-testing phase, to measure the fitness of the systems (GP style).
	www.cs.usu.edu /~degaris/about/terms.html (6239 words)

	1999 Darwin Nominations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Darwin Awards are annually bestowed upon (the remains of) individuals who have given their all in an effort to improve our gene pool.
		The Darwin Awards applaud those who have made the ultimate sacrifice of killing themselves by the most extraordinarily stupid means.
		Strickson apparently tried to stuff approximately 50 pounds of laundry into his washing machine by climbing on top of the washer and attempting to force the clothing into the basin.
	www.c4vct.com /kym/humor/1999darw.htm (388 words)

	Amazon.com: Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Helix Books): Books: George B. Dyson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Darwin Among the Machines is not so much about how today's intelligence came to be, but about how it may further develop as humanity and computer grow closer together.
		EDVAC stored both data and instructions in mercury delay-line memory as binary and as in the Turing Universal Machine, long strings of bits represented numbers to be operated on and sequenced and potential dynamic structures of operations to be performed, such as bit shifting, multiplexing, Boolean logic, memory storage, and accumulation.
		To expect a machine to suddenly start thinking and its neurons to behavior like biological counterparts is a myth, a fable to consume brilliant minds into the dream that machines can think.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738200301?v=glance (3182 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Darwin believed that the simplest form of life, the biological cell, reproduced itself, making occasional errors or variations that resulted in slightly different forms.
		This was referred to as the Darwin Machine (Bownds, 1999).
		Charles Darwin’s idea of the Darwin Machine was then combined with modern genetics to form neo-Darwinism (Bownds, 1999).
	ot.creighton.edu /OTD511/Readings/H_Oppermann_Paper.doc (2188 words)

	2001 Darwin Award: Coke Is It! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He died beneath the soda machine, asphyxiated, with a blood alcohol level slightly over the legal driving limit.
		The report also states that toppled vending machines have caused at least 35 deaths and 140 injuries in the last twenty years.
		In response, a spokesperson for Coke said that Canadian machines are now labelled with a warning that "tipping or rocking may cause injury or death." They have also installed anti-theft devices in newer models to keep people from obtaining free drinks.
	www.darwinawards.com /darwin/darwin2001-25.html (235 words)

	Installed Darwin and have 2 questions - macosx.com - Mac Support
		I installed Darwin from apple's website and the install went ok, but i am having a wee bit of troubles and a couple questions.
		I do have access to my other machines that have OS X on them that I can SSH to the Darwin machine with.
		Darwin uses NetInfo to manage its users, passwords, hostnames, etc. To set your IP address and host name you can actually use the old-fashioned /etc/hosts method and then import the hosts file into NetInfo using niutil.
	www.macosx.com /forums/showthread.php?t=26664 (270 words)

	OpenDarwin:VMWare - OpenDarwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This describes how to install Darwin on VMWare 5.x and get IP networking between a Darwin virtual machine and Linux in another virtual machine (Fedora Core 4 used in this example, but it should be applicable with any unix that works in vmware, supports the vmware virtual network interface, and has pppd).
		This virtual machine will be the client, and the other end will be a virtual machine.
		This virtual machine will be the server, the other end will be a virtual machine.
	wiki.opendarwin.org /index.php/OpenDarwin:VMWare (669 words)

	ScienceDaily: Darwin's Time Machine: Scientists Begin Predicting Evolution's Next Step
		They are encoded in the organism's genetic material (usually DNA or RNA), and control the physical development and behavior of the organism.
		Natural selection -- Natural selection is the phrase Charles Darwin used in 1859 for the process he proposed to explain the origin of species and their apparent adaptation to their environment.
		In the 150 years since Darwin, the field of evolutionary biology has left a glaring gap in understanding how animals developed their astounding variety and complexity.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2002/03/020320081607.htm (2382 words)

	William H. Calvin, "The brain as a Darwin Machine" 1987
		This stochastic toolmaking is one round of a Darwin Machine: make lots of random variants by brute hashing about, then select the good ones.
		Like the elegant eyes and ears produced by biological randomness, the Darwin Machine's final product (whether sentence or scenario, algorithm or allegory) no longer appears random because of many millisecond-long generations of selection shaping up alternative sequences off-line.
		The Darwin Machines of particular interest here are the ones associated with chaining together actions (sequencing).
	williamcalvin.com /1980s/1987Nature.htm (2050 words)

	Cogprints - The brain as a Darwin Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cogprints - The brain as a Darwin Machine
		Calvin, William H. The brain as a Darwin Machine.
		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.
	cogprints.org /22 (75 words)

	Drilling Automation Research for Wing manufacture, DARWIN, automated wing assembly, orbital drilling, vision systems, ...
		The DARWIN project is a £1 million collaborative project, part-sponsored by the DTI, involving AMTRI, The Hyde Group and Airbus UK.
		The DARWIN machine, constructed at AMTRI, and now installed at Airbus's Filton facility, incorporates the first of a new generation of orbital drilling units.
		AMTRI's role in the project has been largely concerned with the software and algorithms required for the control of what is essentially an 8-axis machine, carrying out 5-axis milling and drilling.
	www.amtri.co.uk /amtri_non_asp/mach_sys/DARWIN.html (254 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I've committed a set of changes to odcctools that allow it to be used to cross compile and link Mach-O Darwin binaries on Linux.
		If you use Darwin, you may be missing libmx.dylib, which you can probably get away with a dummy symlink to libSystem.B.dylib, unless you use some functionality that requires a real libmx.dylib.
		If you use Darwin, you may be missing > libmx.dylib, which you can probably get away with a dummy symlink to > libSystem.B.dylib, unless you use some functionality that requires a > real libmx.dylib.
	www.opendarwin.org /pipermail/odcctools/2004-November.txt (1412 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They are currently all configured to allow individual users to provide (or "serve") html documents of their choosing.
		Change its name to "home.html" Assuming that I am user mst3k on machine darwin.clas, then the URL to the file home.html is: http://darwin.clas.virginia.edu/~mst3k/ The following example shows the above instructions in more detail.
		darwin: /home/mst3k $ ls Mail/ bin/ cron/ other.html troff/ News/ classes/ me.html pub/ darwin: /home/mst3k $ mkdir public_html darwin: /home/mst3k $ ls Mail/ bin/ cron/ other.html public_html/ News/ classes/ me.html pub/ troff/ darwin: /home/mst3k $ ls -ld.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~class/AM483_95/how_to.txt (405 words)

	Darwin - Information for Executives - darwinmag.com - from IDG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Executive coach and Darwin columnist John Baldoni says that leaders who tap into the collective aspirations of their team have a head start to achieving great things.
		This collection of articles, research, reader insights and other resources on CRM provides a convenient way to quickly digest technology topics, and is delivered immediately to your desktop via PDF.
		Darwin's information partner lets you gain insight into where IT is headed — and where it should be headed.
	www.darwinmag.com (733 words)

	MacAddict Forums / IBM BLADE SERVER with PPC970,, Will it run darwin?
		They sound like nice machines, cheap, dual processors.
		I haven't tried to run Darwin on machine besides a mac let alone on a mac so I can't say for sure.
		Someone send an email to IBM's CEO, tell him to pre-install Darwin on them before shipping, and today's good deed is done.
	www.macaddict.com /forums/post/577065 (497 words)

	William H. Calvin, "The Emergence of Intelligence," Scientific American Presents (November 1998)
		By 1874, just 15 years after Darwin published The Origin of Species, American psychologist William James was talking about mental processes operating in a Darwinian manner.
		In effect, he suggested, ideas might somehow "compete" with one another in the brain, leaving only the best or "fittest." Just as Darwinian evolution shaped a better brain in two million years, a similar Darwinian process operating within the brain might shape intelligent solutions to problems on the time scale of thought and action.
		Fifth, the relative reproductive success of the variants is influenced by their environment; this result is what Darwin called natural selection.
	williamcalvin.com /1990s/1998SciAmer.htm (4444 words)

	The Cerebral Code (William Calvin) - book review
		The competitive replication of these hexagonal patterns provides the basis for a "Darwin Machine".
		The second part looks at the role such a Darwin Machine could play in cognitive functions like short term memory, working space limits, associative memory and convergence zones, long-distance communication and synchronisation, metaphors, and creativity.
		(This is largely independent of the particular implementation of such a Machine, and hence of the preceding neurobiological hypothesis.) Using the abstraction provided by the concept of a Darwin Machine, Calvin draws analogies with aspects of genetic evolution and population biology such as biogeography, sex, founder effects, and niches.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Cerebral_Code.html (456 words)

	MacOSX
		This version was compiled on a darwin 6.6 machine (MacOSX 10.2.6 Jaguar).
		In order to make it work you need to install the package for Dynamic loading compatibility library named dlcompat (with fink or dselect apt).
		This version was compiled on a darwin 6.1 machine (MacOSX10.2 Jaguar).
	cermics.enpc.fr /~jpc/scilab/site/MacOSX/MacOSX/MacOSX.html (471 words)

	1994 Darwin Award: Junk Food Junkie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This year's Darwin Award went to the fellow who was killed by a Coke machine, which toppled over on top of him as he was attempting to tip a free soda out of it.
		Around 12:30 am a security guard found a man pinned underneath a vending machine.
		No safety considerations were violated, making this copycat death ineligible for a Darwin Award.
	www.darwinawards.com /darwin/darwin1994-01.html (243 words)

	Darwin's Time Machine: Scientists begin predicting evolution's next step (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Email the release "Darwin's Time Machine: Scientists begin predicting evolution's next step."
		Your e-mail address, and that of your recipient(s), will be used only to let the recipient(s) know who sent the link and in the case of transmission errors.
		The information will not be used for any other purpose.
	www.eurekalert.org /emailrelease.php?file=uor-dtm031902.php (59 words)

	[No title]
		DARWIN / / #if defined (GNU_MALLOC) && \ diff -Naur xemacs/src/lisp.h xe2/src/lisp.h --- xemacs/src/lisp.h Mon Feb 7 18:54:56 2000 +++ xe2/src/lisp.h Fri Dec 1 14:46:47 2000 @@ -1929,6 +1929,8 @@ #ifdef HAVE_INTTYPES_H #include
		/ + + +/ The following line tells the configuration script what sort of + operating system this machine is likely to run.
		/ + +#define NO_ARG_ARRAY + +/ Use type int rather than a union, to represent Lisp_Object / +/ This is desirable for most machines.
	www.sealiesoftware.com /xemacs/xemacs-21.1.12-darwin.patch (1629 words)

	GBN: Book Club Newsletter September 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		THE IDEA OF EVOLUTION keeps finding new uses, from self-adapting software (via genetic algorithms) to the "Darwin Machine" of brain function (detailed in an excellent new book, The Cerebral Code, by GBN member William Calvin).
		George Dyson is a Darwin of the information revolution, translating close and original scholarly work into a momentous synthesis in Darwin Among the Machines.
		Cosmologist Lee Smolin in The Life of the Cosmos proposes formally that "the underlying structure of our world is to be found in the logic of evolution."
	www.gbn.com /BookClubNewsletterDisplayServlet.srv?dt=0997 (376 words)

	Darwin
		The C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin and Darwiniana
		H. Calvin, "The brain as a Darwin machine," NATURE 1987
		Religion in the Age of Darwin: The Higher Criticism
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~dvess/ids/ich/darwin.html (110 words)

	GNU-Darwin x86 package instructions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Be sure to read the APSL and the GPL, so that you will know your rights.
		Many thanks to rrp for building an Intel machine for GNU-Darwin-x86 production (and his work on the
		Fetch pkg_add.x86 to a second computer, then scp it to your Darwin-x86 machine.
	www.gnu-darwin.org /x86.shtml (356 words)

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