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I use duality a lot in my own thinking, but it starts with difference/similarity (observed) vs comparison/choice (observer). it's more akin to yin/yang. those 4 are the elements of sensation which together provides the ability to sense kind (aka: type, category, group, set, etc). each is a prerequisite for the rest to exist.

similarly the basic kinds of sensation are space/time, body/psyche, other/self. the first 4 elements above are applied in the context of these 6, so that for example, past and future evolve from comparison and choice in a temporal context, measure from space and body, each of the 5 to 14+ bodily senses, hot from rough from heavy, etc. and so on. morality enters the picture with pain and pleasure, which direct living beings generally from one toward the other like stick vs carrot. they express as need and satisfaction, and project in the psyche into a context other than here/now as fear and desire. the naturally emergent moral of nature is kindness, the prevention and minimization of unnecessary suffering. anyway, lots more, but dichotomies aren't all bad. in fact even to have the idea of there being such thing as "one", there must exist many to provide it a meaning in context. difference is prerequisite for consciousness to even exist.

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