>That is not true. It could lead to the most optimal solution.
There is no such thing as "the most optimal solution". Optimality is a human imposition on the world. Fitness functions do not actually exist, they are merely a way for us to conceive of the operation of selection. Evolution is not performing gradient descent.
There is no such thing as "the most optimal solution". Optimality is a human imposition on the world. Fitness functions do not actually exist, they are merely a way for us to conceive of the operation of selection. Evolution is not performing gradient descent.