Yes. The only force we know that achieves this is undirected, and no single part of it stays at the top for long. Contrast with superintelligence, a single entity which does not evolve but optimizes in a directed way.
I think evolution is not an undirected process in that sense because it's an optimization process, that optimizes to create more copies of itself. Superintelligence will likely use some Evolutionary Computation (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_computation ).
Also see Karl Sims 'Creatures' from the 90s:
youtube.com/watch?v=JBgG_VSP7f8
or
OpenAI's Multi-Agent Hide and Seek:
youtube.com/watch?v=kopoLzvh5jY
