Intentional Evolution: A Hypothesis of Conscious Genetic Adaptation

This paper introduces the hypothesis of Intentional Evolution — the idea that living beings consciously or quasi-consciously influence their own hereditary transmission.Contrary to the neo-Darwinian view, which treats evolution as the product of random mutation filtered by selection, Intentional Evolution proposes that organisms possess internal mechanisms of evaluation, anticipation, and correction that direct genetic change toward functional coherence. At the cellular level, processes such as gene editing, epigenetic signaling, and feedback regulation suggest that life continuously monitors and adjusts its own informational structure. Evolution, in this framework, is not a blind lottery but an intelligent search guided by the organism’s experience and systemic awareness. By integrating insights from molecular biology, biosemiotics, and systems theory, the paper argues that biological creativity arises from within — as a form of self-organized learning through reproduction. Keywords: intentional evolution, biosemiotics, self-organization, epigenetics, evolutionary direction, teleology, adaptation, genetic information, biological agency, evolutionary theory Related works The Empirical Basis of Mathematics: How Observation Shapes Abstract Knowledge — https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17442593 A Decimal Identity for Powers of Two – Universal Form — https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17289902 The Origin of Organs and the Limits of Neo-Darwinism: A Commentary on Rosine Chandebois — https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17250375 The End of Neo-Darwinism: Why Evolution Requires Intention — https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17424843 Sexuality and Language: Parallels between the Exchange of Biological and Symbolic Information — https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17290559 Intentional Evolution: A Hypothesis of Conscious Genetic Adaptation — https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17187530