No point here, just babbling...
Oct. 15th, 2003 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxRandom not yet very well verbalized thought while trying unsuccessfully to sleep last night (the valerian root did finally kick in, thankfully).
I realized that there were no opposites that I could think of where I was not happier with them being thought of as opposite ends of a spectrum, rather than them being the only options with no mixing allowed. I cannot find any cases where a pair of opposites are the only choices, with no middle ground.
I don't know what to do with this idea. I've often suspected that life would be much easier if I *could* believe in clear boundaries between opposites, but I think it would also be very, very uncomfortable for who I am. I like being switchy. And I like to try to see other people's sides of things, of which there are very rarely only two. Hell, I, personally, tend to have multiple mental and emotional states at any given time.
I realized that there were no opposites that I could think of where I was not happier with them being thought of as opposite ends of a spectrum, rather than them being the only options with no mixing allowed. I cannot find any cases where a pair of opposites are the only choices, with no middle ground.
I don't know what to do with this idea. I've often suspected that life would be much easier if I *could* believe in clear boundaries between opposites, but I think it would also be very, very uncomfortable for who I am. I like being switchy. And I like to try to see other people's sides of things, of which there are very rarely only two. Hell, I, personally, tend to have multiple mental and emotional states at any given time.
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Date: 2003-10-15 03:05 pm (UTC)I'm inclined to believe there is *never* a true binary state in anything. Not even on the subatomic level. Reference that even in wcg's comments about that: " it is possible for an inherently unstable neutron to decay into a proton, an electron, and a neutrino." The very statement demands that these particles are inherently on a spectrum; possibly not a line spectrum but a field spectrum (2D vs 3D) That the reverse never occurs is irrelevant.
Likewise, xiphias' alive/dead example. When does life end? When the heart stops? When brainwaves cease? When your hair stops growing?
Some humans put boundaries between these states; but that is merely a human problem. Life and nature always affords more options than that. Hence, you might notice my user icon, the triskele. It's like YinYang and other binaries that require both to spin, but with the added obviousness of third options - Yin/Yang/Yao or something (not that the Chinese would ever put it that way :) -H....