Hegel's thesis and antithesis seems a plausible enough pair, in that everything in consciousness, in itself or in reality, proceeds by contradiction and strife, but synthesis is vague and inaccurate. No state ever 'transcends and includes' another state, at best only tells itself that it does so. Every past self that you think you've outgrown would astonish you if it were able to confront you. This is because the freedom at the root of every mode of experience and which is its very life has nothing to do with evolution, is unchanging and uninvolved in the picayune dramas of appearing being.