The word stems from the Latin evolutio meaning "unfolding" and before the late 19th century was confined to referring to goal-directed, pre-programmed processes such as embryological development.
One theoretical model of the prefrontal cortex posits that we can achieve goal-directed behavior via "biased competition" - that is, ...
Simon originally wrote on goal-directed behaviours in corporate organization, suggesting humans ".tend to identify with sub-goals rather than ultimate goals.
An intelligent agent is a device that interacts with its environment in flexible, goal-directed ways, recognizing important states of the environment and acting to achieve desired results.
Because the highest levels of our mind are goal-directed problem-solvers. That is to say that the machines inside our heads evolved, originally, to meet various built-in or acquired needs such as comfort, nutrition, defense and reproduction.
 See also: Knowledge, Agent, Artificial intelligence, Planning, Intelligent agent
  
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