Quote:I think one of the biggest patterns is duality. It is in male/female, left brain/right brain, body/mind, yes/no, light/dark, 1/0 (for computers)... Why is it, I just casually ponder , that a pattern seems to be there of many things having two separate but co-existing parts?I'll have a quick stab at this one if you don't mind?
Male/Female - What about hermaphrodites? In some species there is no need for male/female. The fact they arose out of natural selection is a chance occurrence.
Left brain/right brain - Granted, I'll give you that one, but on it's own it doesn't make much impact.
Body/mind - I think this is an unnecessary partition. The mind is not a separate entity, it is part of the body. What about less developed creatures that have pure instinct and no "mind" in the sense we talk about?
Yes/No - We also have "maybe", and these are examples of human language development, not of nature. Yes/No only exist within certain groups of humans; they are abstract.
Light/Dark - Ok, you do realise there is no such thing as "dark" right? Dark is the absence of light, not it's own thing. You can't put dark in a room, you can only take light out of a room. Dark is as abstract a concept as "yes/no".
1/0 - This is only because we want to be efficient. We could have chosen to have a base 4 computer rather than a base 2 (binary) computer but the hardware would have been much more complex. Binary is the simplest form for a computer to take, and it works a charm. Also, quantum computers have multiple bases and are incredibly complex, working much faster than any binary computer system.
So all in all, I think you score 1 point for the brain, but nothing for any of the others. I don't see how the "duality" of some things is a pattern anymore than 1 thing being a pattern, or groups of 3. All these numbers don't exist, they are human inventions.
