Intelligence still uses an evolutionary search strategy, it is just internalized and
approximate. Your brain considers a large number of potential routes in a highly
compressed statistical approximation of reality, and the most promising eventually
get written up or coded up and become real designs in the real world. But this entire
process is still all evolutionary.
In the sense that it consists of copying with variation and differential reproductive success, yes.
However, evolution using intelligence isn’t the same as evolution by random mutations—and you originally went on to draw conclusions about the optimality of organic evolution—which was mostly the “random mutations” kind.
In the sense that it consists of copying with variation and differential reproductive success, yes.
However, evolution using intelligence isn’t the same as evolution by random mutations—and you originally went on to draw conclusions about the optimality of organic evolution—which was mostly the “random mutations” kind.