Epilogue: Meaning: "We stand at the beginning of a great new synthesis. The correspondence of static structures is not its subject, but the connectedness of self-organization dynamics - mind - at many levels. It becomes possible to view evolution as a complex, but holistic dynamic phenomenon of a universal unfolding of order which becomes manifest in many ways, as matter and energy, information and complexity, consciousness and self-reflection. It is no longer necessary to assume a special life force (such as Bergson's elan vital or the prana of Hinduism) spearate from the physical forces. Natural history, including the history of man, may now be understood as the history of the organization of matter and energy. But it may also be viewed as the organization of information into complexity and knowledge. Above all, however, it may be understood as the evolution of consciousness, or in other words of autonomy and emancipation - and as the evolution of the mind. ... In this way, the old daulism of matter and mind is overcome, which has characterized (and sometimes plagued) Western thinking throughout the past 2000 years."

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