Is Iterated Cumulative Motion Toward a Goal?

If you add heredity to selection, what you get is iterated cumulative motion towards a goal. When one watches a strangler fig grow and encrust a tree and then replace it in the forest, that strangler fig of course does not know what it's doing. But it is not wrong to think of it as having the goal of replacing that tree. It's not a conscious goal, but it functions as if it has a goal in the same way that an ant searches for scraps of food. The ant presumably doesn't know it has agoal either. This process whereby heredity plus this general process of selection that is anywhere and everywhere you look results in the very special