Evolutionary programming is one of the evolutionary algorithm paradigms. It is similar to genetic programming, but the structure of the program to be optimized is fixed, while its numerical parameters are allowed to evolve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_programming

Dear Alexey V Melkikh answered in a message of question share.

"I agree that evolution is programmed and directed. Undirected evolution is not able to solve the problem of enumeration of exponentially large number of possible genome variants."

Dear Pierlorenzo Brignoli

Thanks for helping contribution.

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Dear Alexey V Melkikh

Thanks your raised argument is significant.

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Dear Raja N A Khan Thank you invitation!

Natural Evolution is Programed ? (is not programed it is connected to the aquatic condition water behaviour in a condition of 10-50 Celsius grade (at first step it was “chaotic” as the grade of evolution increased…  it become moreprogramed… (in My book “AZ ESZME 1995” exist very logical explanation….

Programing

 3. Evolution is programed by organism itself (and the organism environment)…

Perfectness

4.      Evolution always (trying to) yield a desired and perfect organism with reference to current environmental & ecosystem

Resistance & Support

4.      Evolution is independent from any role of Natural set of logic and consciousness-1.      Natural set of logic and consciousness support evolution

Understanding

4.      Evolution is like an amendment in pre-defined set of life.- 3.      Evolution is just understanding of human brain otherwise it’s just an intermediate steps during creation

Few More

3.      Evolution is successful only when ecosystems also do evoluted along.- 1.      ADAPTATION is the key to survive in future

Answers:

1…Yes… at first step the conditions seems chaotic, only after a big umber of repetition of aquatic medium can produce condition for Acquired Evolution, (se My book “AZ ESZME 1995” Az Élet megjelenése a Földön (Life appearition onto Earth…

 2. The controlled Evolution trying to use the processes of Natural evolution, without using other tools… When Genetic Engineering are making direct physical intervention in gene structure (I am not from field, only it is a presumption )

3. the evolution of biological “creatures” is longer and has main aspect is a repetition  when the none biological “creatures” do not have this aspect (P.S. the answer is over simplified)

4. We do not need to see the evolution with reference to Quantum Biophysics as well, only if we can such an explanation which are shown in My book “AZ ESZME 1995” Az Élet megjelenése a Földön (Life appearition onto Earth… In this case if we can make quantification of such a water process which are leading to same combination like life…

5…  The response is depending from our classification and from definition …

6. We under continue adaptation, under continue  evolution you can conclude the response…

7. It’s depending from the conation… Wanting to reach the social-environmental equilibrium..

8. This question needs a little change because the terminologies (in their context)  used not permit a coherent answer…  Is evolution a way out for the living creatures of Earth to effect the logics in cosmos? Yes, very visible in case of the advanced intelligentical state (example Humanoids)

Claude Shannon proved in 1948 (A Mathematical Theory of Communication) that in a digital processor, we have to sample at twice the highest signal frequency. In 2004, Emmanuel Candès, Terence Tao, and Donoho David proved that this is not entirely true with a new technique called "Compressed Sensing." In theory, you can take a zipped or compressed file and reduce it to a thousandth or millionth the original size. It means that the DNA of a specific human can be reduced to a single page of characters or even to a single line. Something similar may occur for movies and music files, dramatically reducing the need for bandwidth on the Internet. I may suggest selling all shares of open TVs and prepare for simulators of human embryology, to validate embryos before inserting them into the womb. Genetic engineering will reach levels close to God. Please, read: "Efficient compression and genotype analysis of large genetic-variation data sets" Nature doi:10.1038/nmeth.3654

 Evolution is programed by dozy chaos. Please see

1) Discovery of Dozy Chaos and Discovery of Quanta: Analogy Being in Science and Perhaps in Human Progress

2) My answer to the question of Vitaly Voloshin in RG: ‘Is the end of our civilization encoded in human genome?'

Furthermore, end of our civilization is programed by dozy chaos.

I'm a physicist without knowing much about biology. So, my understanding might be wrong, but my answers to your main questions are 2, 1, 4, 2, and 1.

I hold by a recent complex creation,

see RCCF framework. (The Recent Complex Creation Framework to align and understand in max available context Torah testimony and valid science.)

designed base family/order types with the designed in ability to adapt, with One common designer/creator, not common ancestry.

so an ID as in intelligent design narrative, and not neo-darwin theory' (NDT)

RCCF references many credentialed scientists and natural observations that explain the science why ID is, and NDT is not, the reality .

Two examples of the references and their books i recommend are:

Lee Spetner PhD 'The Evolution Revolution'

and 

Stephen Meyer's 'Darwin's Doubt'

Joachim provided an extensive series of articles, so I won't try to top that!

My only suggestion, from what I understand on this topic, is that evolution is not programmed or pre-ordained, but rather, it is allowed. It is permitted to happen, because genetic mutations occur thanks to a less that perfect error detection and correction protocol, at the cellular level.

So, the occasional random genetic mutation is "permitted," by design, and the subsequent natural selection process will ensure that "unfortunate" mutations will not survive the environment, lucky mutations will thrive, and the neither lucky nor unlucky mutations will create a level of biological diversity.

On the other hand, consider what would happen if error detection/correction were far more perfect, in DNA. More like what you have in a computer hard drive. If it were that perfect, evolution would not occur. The mutations would become so rare, or non-existent, that only a deliberate, pre-programmed evolution mechanization would work.

Estimado Raja NA Khan

Gracias por su invitación

Como acostumbra, sus preguntas son complejas ¿La evolución natural está programada? y difíciles de contestar en una primer instancia, pues contemplan en forma simultánea otros planteamientos subrogados que para llegar a la respuesta de la pregunta raíz, es necesario abordar primero las derivadas, analizarlas y valorarlas, para finalmente integrarlas al todo en forma armónica.

En esta ocasión voy a seguir su guión y finalmente haré una conclusión. Como acostumbro en casos donde los conceptos y campos semánticos utilizados son complejos y difíciles de comprender e interpretar, expreso mi participación en Español e Inglés.

Programación

• La evolución no está previamente programada, es un proceso que ha durado desde miles hasta millones de años y en un experimento no planeado de fenómenos verificados al azar, y por ensayo y error, afortunadamente dos o más de ellos hicieron interacción, se asimilaron y originaron un algo diferente y nuevo, como un milagro de la naturaleza sin intervención del ser humano, a la manera de un "Eureka Cósmico".

Perfección

• La evolución nunca creó a un organismo deseado ni perfecto, más bien fue resultado de un milagro de la naturaleza, y sin aparente consciencia de lo que realizaba (ya que no concibo un "ser vivo cósmico " que dirija todos los fenómenos termodinámicos del universo), dio origen a una "singularidad", y dentro del caos, de momento se verificó "un algo organizado", que con el tiempo cósmico, se fue haciendo cada vez más complejo, sistema abierto al cambio y al entorno, lo que facultó el perfeccionamiento cada vez mayor de "ese algo" que en algún momento de dicho tiempo cósmico, se transformó en "un sistema biológico elemental" perfectible.

Resistencia y Soporte

• La evolución no dependiente de algún papel, plan o programa consciente del conjunto de los fenómenos naturales y tampoco de la lógica. Hasta el momento la evolución no ha dependido directamente de la voluntad, razonamiento, ni de la consciencia lógica del ser humano. Si acaso, en la era actual en la cual estamos inmersos "Antropoceno", el homo sapiens  está jugando un rol fundamental en la modificación negativa del ecosistema, so pena de que estos cambios depredadores, lleven a la extinción de la vida consciente del ser humano, aunque seguramente la vida en la tierra y probablemente en el universo y nuestro sistema solar, existirá en forma diferente.

Comprensión

• La evolución ahora, si es un fenómeno deseable para la vida sostenible del planeta. Para ello se requiere la comprensión total, cognitiva, afectiva, ética y moral de la función superior del Sistema Nervioso Central (cerebro) del ser humano, la consciencia,; con el propósito de que tenga la capacidad para percatarse de los actos nocivos y perjudiciales para el ecosistema y para los grupos humanos en convivencia dentro de la sociedad. 
• La evolución puede ser modulada por la acción perfectible y sustentable del ser humano. Es factible de lograr actuando en forma consciente y positiva en si mismo, además de acciones tendientes a beneficiar a sus semejantes y cuidando su entorno material, así como protegiendo y evitando la extinción de la fauna y flora, que finalmente también son de su responsabilidad.

Factores importantes para la evolución sostenible

• Los factores más importantes para que el proceso de evolución continúe y sea perfectible y sustentable, es la interacción tanto del medio ambiente como la genética. Ya existen muchas evidencias epidemiológicas, antropológicas, sociales y científicas, que avalan dicha interacción y las consideran indispensables, dado que ya se han conceptuado como relaciones ontológicas desde el nivel Macro hasta el Micro: Genoma-Medio Ambiente; Genética-Epigenética; Genotipo-Fenotipo; DNA-Metilación microsomal
• La ingeniería genética a hecho posible la síntesis de proteínas, hormonas, enzimas y otras substancias indispensables para la vida saludable del ser humano, a través de la experimentación bioquímica y nanotecnológtica, modificando principalmente el genoma de microorganismos (bacterias, algas), para que fabriquen en grandes cantidades (como reactores industriales) las substancias planeadas y necesarias para el hombre. 
• Mientra se comprenda mejor el papel que juega la Biofísica Cuántica en la Evolución, mejor se entenderá y modulará la misma por el ser humano. Por ejemplo: Avances en la Biología Sintética (crear y fabricar vida en el laboratorio, clonación de células, órganos y tejidos para trasplante). 

CONCLUSIONES

• La síntesis de todos los argumentos antes mencionados, es lo que considero como elementos conceptuales, éticos, morales, espirituales, de conducta, científicos, experimentales, antropológicos, sociales y culturales, para que existe, persista, se perfeccione y sea sustentable la Evolución Natural.
• La evolución a lo largo de las tiempos cósmicos y geológicos se ha desarrollado sin la intervención consciente del ser humano. A partir de la existencia de vida en la tierra (arqueobacterias, algas, bacterias, protozoarios, metazoarios.... animales invertebrados, vertebrados....... hombres, la evolución se ha hecho presente en la estructura orgánica y corporal de tales seres vivos, desde la arquitectura biológica más simple y elemental, hasta la mas compleja.
• De acuerdo con la "Teoría de la Evolución de Charles Darwin", la evolución aparentemente se verificaba con cambios en las diferentes especias en forma más o menos temporal, secuencial y lineal. Ahora sabemos (por evidencias científicas, arqueológicas y antropológicas) que la evolución más que lineal, se ha verificado en forma de saltos, de acuerdo a las investigaciones, argumentos y ensayos del científico Stephen Jay Gould, escritos en su obra magna "La Estructura de la Teoría de la Evolución"
• En la era geológica actual "Antropoceno" la acción del hombre: consciente y frecuentemente sin consciencia del daño a la naturaleza, ha revolucionado la evolución a tiempos de cósmicos a geológicos e históricos. Aun más, me atrevo a decir que con la incorporación a la ciencia de la Biofísica, la Nanotecnología, la Ingeniería Genética y la Biología Sintética, el ser humano estará en posibilidad de potenciar la evolución a tiempos más cortos que los históricos (lustros, décadas, siglos) es decir, estaremos en posibilidad de verificar cambios evolutivos sorprendentes en el lapso de años y a lo sumo el equivalente a la duración de una generación de seres humanos.

Saludos

Dr. José Luis García Vigil

Dear NA Raja Khan

Thanks for your invitation

As usual, your questions are complex ¿Does the natural evolution is scheduled? and difficult to answer in a first instance, as simultaneously contemplate other approaches surrogates that to get to the root answer questions need to be addressed first derivatives, analyze and assess them, to finally integrate harmoniously at all.

This time I'll follow your script and finally will make a conclusion. Like I always in cases where the concepts and semantic fields used are complex and difficult to understand and interpret, I express my participation in Spanish and English.

Programming

• Evolution is not pre-programmed, is a process that has lasted for thousands to millions of years and in an experiment unplanned verified random phenomena, and by trial and error, fortunately two or more of them made interaction, assimilated and originated a different and something new, like a miracle of nature without human intervention, in the manner of a "Eureka Cosmic".

Perfection

• Evolution never created a desired perfect body or rather was the result of a miracle of nature, without apparent awareness of what is performed (not because imagine a "cosmic being alive" to direct all thermodynamic phenomena of the universe) It gave rise to a "singularity", and in the chaos, the moment was verified "a somewhat organized," with cosmic time, it became increasingly complex, open to change and environment system, which empowered the increasing refinement of "that something" that at some point in this cosmic time, became perfectible "an elementary biological system".

Resistance and Support

• The evolution not dependent on any paper, plan or program aware of all natural phenomena and not logic. So far the development has not depended directly on the will, reasoning, logic or consciousness of human beings. If anything, in the current era in which we are immersed "Anthropocene" homo sapiens is playing a key role in adverse modification of the ecosystem, failing which these predators changes lead to the extinction of conscious human life , but surely life on earth and probably in the universe and our solar system exist differently.

Comprehension

• The evolution now, if desirable for sustainable life on the planet phenomenon. To this total, cognitive, emotional, ethical and moral understanding of the superior function of the Central Nervous System (brain) of the human being is required, consciousness ,; for the purpose of having the ability to realize the harmful and acts harmful to the ecosystem and human groups living together in society.
• Evolution can be modulated by the perfectible and sustainable human action. It is feasible to achieve acting consciously and positive in itself, in addition to actions to benefit their peers and taking care of their physical environment as well as protecting and preventing the extinction of fauna and flora, which ultimately are also their responsibility.

Important factors for sustainable development

• The most important for the process of evolution continues and is perfectible and sustainable factors is the interaction of both the environment and genetics. There are already many epidemiological, anthropological, social and scientific evidence that support such interaction and considered essential, as already conceptualized as ontological relations from Macro to Micro level: Genome-Environment; Epigenetic-Gene; Genotype-Phenotype; DNA- Methylation microsomal protein.
• Genetic engineering has made possible the synthesis of proteins, hormones, enzymes and other essential for healthy human life substances, through biochemical and nanotecnológtica experimentation, mainly by modifying the genome of microorganisms (bacteria, algae), to manufacture in large quantities (such as industrial reactors) planned and substances necessary for man.
• Mientra better understanding of the role of Quantum Biophysics in evolution, the better you will understand and modulate it by human beings. For example: Advances in Synthetic Biology (create and make life in the laboratory, cloning of cells, organs and tissues for transplantation).

CONCLUSIONS

• The synthesis of all the above arguments is what I consider as conceptual, ethical, moral, spiritual, behavioral, scientific, experimental, anthropological, social and cultural rights to exist, persist, be perfect and be sustainable the Natural Evolution .
• The evolution along the cosmic and geologic time has developed without conscious human intervention. From the existence of life on earth (archaea, algae, bacteria, protozoans, metazoan .... invertebrates, vertebrates ....... men, evolution has been present in organic and body structure such living beings, from the simplest and basic biological architecture to the most complex.
• According to the "Theory of evolution Charles Darwin's" evolution apparently checked with changes in different spices in more or less temporary, sequential and linear. Now we know (for scientific, archaeological and anthropological evidence) that the more linear evolution, has been verified as jumps, according to investigations, arguments and essays scientist Stephen Jay Gould, written in his magnum opus "The Structure The Theory of Evolution"
• In the current geological era "Anthropocene" the action of man and often without conscious awareness of the damage to nature, has revolutionized the cosmic evolution of geological time and historical. Even more, I dare say that with the addition to the science of biophysics, nanotechnology, genetic engineering and synthetic biology, human beings will be able to enhance the evolution times shorter than the historical (decades, centuries) that is, we will be able to check surprising evolutionary changes in the span of years and at most equal to the length of a generation of human beings.

regards

Dr. Jose Luis Garcia Vigil

Mr. Raja,

The word "programmed" is purely anthropogenic. While using this word we seem to be the believers of Anthropic Principle.

I think "programming" does not exist in the universe. I believe evolution is driven by "chances" that favor "chances" of occurrence of their following events and that happens on and on. Along with this, occurs the filtration process called Survival of The Fittest.

Notice that the events in the evolution process are not mutually exclusive. They depend on n number of factors and events.

See the theory of "deductive biology".

We are now programming our next form of biologic entity. The degraded and toxic natural fitness landscape of nowadays has minor importance in our current desired genetic evolution. We are building all the necessary tools do evolve ourselves to previously chosen forms of human beings, simulated in advance and adjusted to the current and future artificial civilization landscape. Many cortex functions will be transferred to artificial intelligent agents, coupled to our brain, especially those related to the mechanic reasoning of the industrial revolution. We will be searching for the previous harmonic life when we were embedded in nature since our DNA is 200 thousand years old. Possibly, we may choose to be uploaded to a robust cybernetic form of life support, when this technology becomes available for commercial use.

My opinion is - that natural evolution proceeds chaotically, but as a result at last -  the best variants are selected.

Evolutionary programming is one of the evolutionary algorithm paradigms. It is similar to genetic programming, but the structure of the program to be optimized is fixed, while its numerical parameters are allowed to evolve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_programming

Dear Raja N A Khan,

thanks for sharing this very complex question. And, sorry for that very late answer, I was occupied by many work and any answer to your question requires a lot of profundity. But now, I think I am able to answer. I hope my contribution leads to a revival of the discussion.

Programming

It is not clearly decidable if evolution is programmed or not: On the one hand one can say that it is a statistical process. We could consider all genome mutations as stochastic. And the survival probability of the set of genome is defined by the environment. But this is also a stochastic process. On the other hand we describe our world in therms of mathematics (usually using differential equations). If there exists a system of differential equations to describe the underlaying processes of biology (if we consider biological evolution first), then evolution is programmed. This is also true if we never will be able to solve it (or even write it down). If there is NOT such a system of equations, at least a part of the system is really stochastic – and evolution is not programmed.

Perfectness

As László-Attila Horváth wrote evolution tries to achieve a perfect organism with reference to current environment and ecosystem.

But, on the one hand, this development needs an infinite amount of time. On the other hand ecosystem and environment changes due to the optimization process (and also other reasons). For example, if a predator improves its hunting behavior, the optimization goal of the prey changes (or the prey is wiped out and the predator follows).

We can not say if evolution yields a desired organism. Maybe there are many (nearly) perfect ‘solutions’ to a given environment and ecosystem. But ‘perfectness’ (although unreachable) is the ‘goal’ of evolution.

Resistance and Support

I agree with José Luis García Vigil. Evolution has no plan, it is a system of ‘trial and error’.

Understanding

I agree with José Luis García Vigil, and there is not much to add. But I think that evolution is not only modulated by human action but by evolution itself (where human is a part of evolution).

If we (like László-Attila Horváth) say that evolution is like an amendment in pre-defined set of life, we have the problem that we could not describe the beginning. If the beginning is defined, we could use the description of evolution by amendment, but the beginning of life itself remains unclear (unfortunately all biological models have that problem – we need to describe the transition from ‘chemistry’ to ‘biology’).

Few More

It is absolutely sure that evolution is the key to survive in the future. But I don’t know if evolution is successful only when ecosystems also evolutes. I think that it is more successful when ecosystems also evolutes – and evolution of the ecosystems is (fortunately) a part of evolution. At least one could say that live is boring if ecosystem does not change.

(many) Other points

First of all, I think that both, genetics and environment are extremely powerful to ignite evolution – it is an interaction of two equal parts. So one can not say which one is more powerful.

The question if evolution only specify for biological material or also non biological is more extensive. First of all I can say that evolution is a very universal process. If we consider materials, we could say that non biological evolution is caused by biological evolution. For example, if we human (as a part of evolution) decide that carbon dioxide is a dangerous substance it will be reduced. Or see for example the Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) which were banned in many countries. So, at least the ‘purely’ anthropogenic substances undergoes an evolution. (I hope that money will be wiped out – see: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_anyone_have_an_idea_how_to_abolish_money_and_replace_it_by_something_better.)

On the other hand we could not clearly say if biology is a man-made definition. It can also be seen as a special case of chemistry. And chemistry can be seen as a special case of (quantum-) physics.

So we can say that evolution is a system of ‘trial and error’ where (complex) systems of quanta are tested and, if they ‘does not work’ (whatever that means) they are discarded.

And there is a third kind of evolution: the evolution of knowledge. Many scientific work is based on ‘trial and error’ – directly or indirectly. Every initial work is based on trial and error – simply because there is no reliable base available.

On the question if we need to see the evolution with reference to quantum biophysics I can clearly say yes. Quantum biophysics can be seen as a special case of quantum physics, and the ‘generalized’ evolution mentioned above holds.

On the question if in future human needs evolution for better survival into space I can also say yes. If we leave our planet, environment would radically change so we need adaption.

Now I would add some further thoughts.

Base of evolution

We can conclude that evolution bases on simple rules (mutation and selection – or ‘trial and error’). As known these simple rules leads to the very complex variety of life on earth. As an example how very simple rules leads to a huge complexity see for instance ‘Conway's Game of Life’. Simple rules could be used in evolutionary algorithms to solve problems which are not fully understood (or unsolvable with respect to the previously developed knowledge).

Complexity, Information density

I think our DNA is the most effective ‘data storage’ we nowadays can imagine. We have decoded only one ‘language’ of DNA – the transkription from DNA to RNA and the following translation to the proteins. But all the other ‘languages’ we still doesn’t know!

Dear Luiz Alberto Luz de Almeida (regarding your post from 8th July), I would claim that the DNA is the compressed ‘file’ here. So you would not be able to compress it to a single page or a single line of text. If you want to get all the information from the DNA you have to expand (‘unzip’) it. Nature is not that ineffective and wastes lots of energy to copy so-called ‘junk-DNA’ – but higher organisms have more ‘junk-DNA’ than simple ones. So there must be information in these segments, otherwise it would be selected out by evolution. We just have to find a way to decode it...

‘Dozy Chaos’

Dear Dr. Vladimir Valentinovich Egorov, first of all congratulations to your excellent work. I have read your ‘answer to the question of Vitaly Voloshin in RG’ and skimmed over your other (english) files you have published on your project page. Let me refer to the ‘answer to the question of Vitaly Voloshin in RG’:

You wrote: ‘the quality of this genome is very low’. I think you are right. From the evolutionary point of view evolution did not had enough time to reach perfection.

You wrote: ‘...human behavior can be characterized as egoistic’. Unfortunately you are right again.

You wrote: ‘for a survival we have the only opportunity, namely, it is required to recode our genome from egoistic to altruistic’. Hm… maybe my genome has mutated and now we are lucky… I don’t know. But I know that I am not egoistic at all. I spend days to answer questions on RG while my own work suffers a little bit. But that could save the world.

So the ‘fatal imperfection of the human genome’ you mentioned may have some exceptions. We should take our chance.

You wrote: ‘I am afraid that for the implementation of such a grandiose project, we do not have enough both the mind and the time allotted to us by our own genome, and material resources as well.’ Well, regardless of your project ‘dozy-chaos’ I thought about an own project which would solve the problems you mentioned. Of course this needs support – It is really huge.

I don’t think that the end of civilization is programed by dozy chaos. It might be the most likely scenario but maybe we find a way out. I consider it possible that we learn to control dozy chaos since it is a special case of a more general theory (but this should be discussed in another thread).

I am trying to establish the project (‘new world’) on my RG-page. Unfortunately improvement of the project outline and translation into English needs much more time than I expected.

I hope I could contribute to a comprehensive view on this very complex topic and hope for an ongoing discussion if you like.

Best Regards

Andreas Mämpel

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_anyone_have_an_idea_how_to_abolish_money_and_replace_it_by_something_better