IV. Duality…
the ends of the spectrum.
"Knowledge has two extremes."
< Blaise Pascal
DUALITY is a concept that most people have been familiar with since kindergarten. Of course the concept was not stated as duality, but rather as opposites: hot-cold, happy-sad, day-night, black-white, rich-poor.
Most children learning about opposites probably did not realize that they were learning anything special. But they were. The concept of duality is a radical one that lays the foundation for the System and all systems within it. Systems exist within a constant state of flux due to them having two poles to oscillate between. Every known entity within this dichotomous System lies along a conceptual continuum between two extremes. Some of these spectrums are longer and more complex than others, such as in good and bad, while others are simpler comprised of in the most extreme case, just two points, such as binary.
Some may try to refute the concept of a dichotomous state within which the System exists by adducing, for example, the various states of the molecule H20, which can exist as a solid, a liquid, or a gas. However, these merely represent different excitation states, or energy levels, of the constituent molecules, with the solid being the least and the gas being the most excited.
Dualities are the fundamental component of the next chapter's topic, cycles, which are fluctuations that exist between polar extremes. In addition, the mind, divisions and classifications, and systems are all intricately implicated in the web knitted by the dualities of the world. In all systems, disciplines, and concepts, a dichotomy of components are present. Understanding this element, from which the foundation of the world is built, is vital to understanding everything. Likewise, in the story of