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From the back cover: Here are some of the emergent concepts and formal approaches which seem capable of grasping some of the important characteristics of evolving systems and coherent behavior, or "continuity in change." The contributors to the volume argue that the evolving world of human systems is characterized by the same aspects of imperfection, nonequilibrium and nonpredictability, of differentiation and symbiotic pluralism which seem to govern life in all its manifestations. These new concepts and formal approaches seem to become a powerful integrative force in our understanding of how a totality moves, from physical, biological, and sociobiological to sociocultural aspects of evolution. What is real in this exciting drama of continuous self-renewal and self-realization? Self-bounding processes rather than the elusive and transitory structures which arise from their interaction in every-changing forms and complexities. "Evolution and Consciousness" is one of the first, still rar