                            ELECTRONIC BOOK

                    REFLEXIVE AUTOPOIETIC SYSTEMS THEORY

                Exploring the Meta-systems of Emergent Worlds

                        by Kent Duane Palmer, Ph.D.
 
                        Draft #2 961206 Version B
                                RELEASE 2
                        copyright 1997 Kent Palmer
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                           release date 980416
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This book is about Systems and Meta-systems theory and propounds a 
new theory of anomalous special systems that are hyper-efficient.

It is a series of draft working papers, some unedited, which include the two series
"On The Social Construction of Emergent Worlds" and "Steps to the Threshold of the Social"
along with miscellaneous other associated papers.

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