Is exhaustive search a “selection process”? What about random search?
If yes, is there any search strategy that is not a “selection process”? (If no, then what is it?) Otherwise, “selection process” is just a rather useless synonym for “search”, and the cited thesis just says you can’t find an optimum unless you actually look for it.
If no, that defeats the cited thesis—that optimisation only results from selection processes—since exhaustive search optimises functions fine.
So… to return to my unanswered questions:
Is exhaustive search a “selection process”? What about random search?
If yes, is there any search strategy that is not a “selection process”? (If no, then what is it?) Otherwise, “selection process” is just a rather useless synonym for “search”, and the cited thesis just says you can’t find an optimum unless you actually look for it.
If no, that defeats the cited thesis—that optimisation only results from selection processes—since exhaustive search optimises functions fine.