It didn’t seem like you defined what it meant to evolve towards the target configuration set.
+1 for swapping out the target configuration set with a utility function, and looking for a robust tendency for the utility function to increase. This would also let you express mild optimization (see this thread).
It would work at least as well as the original proposal, because your utility function could just be whatever metric of “getting closer to the target states” would be used in the original proposal.
+1 for swapping out the target configuration set with a utility function, and looking for a robust tendency for the utility function to increase. This would also let you express mild optimization (see this thread).
Would this work for highly non-monotonic utility functions?
It would work at least as well as the original proposal, because your utility function could just be whatever metric of “getting closer to the target states” would be used in the original proposal.