The Human Propensity for Dichotomy
The zeros and ones of machine code seem to offer themselves as a perfect symbols of the orders of Western reality, the ancient logical codes which make the difference between on and off, right and left, light and dark, form and matter, mind and body, white and black, good and evil, right and wrong, life and death, something and nothing, this and that, here and there, inside and out, active and passive, true and false, yes and no, sanity and madness, health and sickness, up and down, sense and nonsense, west and east, north and south
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We have an ingrained tendency to see everything in the world in terms of opposites.
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The Moon as an Example of the Human Tendency to Dichomize
The Human Propensity for Dichotomy > Example/Illustration > The Moon is Binary in NatureSadie Plant observes our tendency to split things into opposites, and we see this happen with the moon in a Chinese folktale.
