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#### <s class="topic-title">[[Darwin machine]]</s>
A mechanism that produces results via rounds of variation, selection, and inheritance.
Similarly:: [[Turing machine]]
> [!wikipedia] [Darwin machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%20machine)
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> A Darwin machine (a 1987 coinage by [[William H. Calvin]]) is a machine that, like a Turing machine, involves an iteration process that yields a high-quality result, but, whereas a Turing machine uses logic, the Darwin machine uses rounds of variation, selection, and inheritance.
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