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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="0" title="Agent-Based Model" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Applied System Theory" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Basic System Theory" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Beyond AI" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Chaos in the mind" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Complex Adaptive System" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Complex Society" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Consciousness" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Ecology of Mind" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Emergence" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="1|0|Evolution" />
  </query-continue>
</api>