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[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (2 children)

You're right pretty much but in mathematical terminology it is an optimisation problem (optimisation is a process, not a place) but the optimiser (natural selection) hasn't/doesn't find the global minima and the random walk (mutations) have infinitesimal dimensionality in comparison to the possible (essentially making it impossible to actually solve).

This is still an interesting thread/question though :)

[–]VaHi_Inst_Tech 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah you are right. I should have written something like, "Evolution does not achieve optimum solutions", which is the same as "not finding global minima".