"We would like to conclude this introduction with a succinct statement of what we believe lies at the heart of the concept of emergence and gives it its unique force. For those committed to emergence, it is process, and not substance, that is the fundamental metaphysical basis of reality. In this view, the key to understanding the universe, as Ilya Prigogine has emphasized, is to be found in the understanding of time. What counts is endurance over time, which has formed - and continues to form - the universe, not the instantaneous events to which mechanism remains attached. Time is a river, as the saying goes—and the river flows on, always moving forward, never running backward, and never the same."

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