Status of Darwin Machine in brain Went searching for circuitry that could support a Darwinian copying competitions in the brain. Superficial layers of neocortex has the right wiring to do it, as I explain in The Cerebral Code . Unicorn from superimposing rhino and horse. Codes in melodies for relationships too, like bigger, or a sentence. Can superimpose tunes just like multi-part music, a cerebral symphony.
Tunes never play solo but always as plainchant choirs of various sizes.
Competition occurs via recruiting singers into your choir. Just like bluegrass and crabgrass competing for each square foot of my back yard. Multifaceted environment is both real-time sensory and memorized. Feelings play a big role plus all of those elements of Damasio s core C. Inheritance because bigger choirs have more perimeter, and copying errors or superpositions are only possible on the edges of the choir. So a lot of subconscious stuff is going on in the background, but what you can report on is simply the current winner of the copying competition.