What is "goal-directed"

Usage examples of "goal-directed".

And it is only a living organism that has the capacity for self-generated, goal-directed action.

Biology, as an organized science, might have developed before physics, and those less mechanical, more goal-directed (teleonomic), functional and evolutionary modes of explanation of the animate world which biologists favour might have become also the model towards which physicists aspired.

Some of them still are human, untouched by the drive of meta-evolution that has replaced blind Darwinian change with a goal-directed teleological progress.