The Absurdity of Binary

A Thought Experiment

We live in a society obsessed with measuring value by output. With this in mind what then is the ultimate output?

It’s not products, inventions, or even AI.

It’s HUMANS.

Another human being is the most sophisticated, complex, intelligent creation possible. No technology comes close. No invention matches the complexity of a single human brain. No AI system demonstrates the creativity, holistic intelligence, and adaptive capacity of a human child.

If output determines value, and humans are the ultimate output, then the people who produce humans are obviously superior. It’s not men producing humans. Especially not men with 106 children with a multitude of women.

It’s WOMEN.

According to our economic value system, women with 10+ children with multiple partners should be considered the most valuable of all. They have produced the most valuable output, hands down.

Not sure you agree?

Let’s do some somatic (big picture) math thinking to see if this will change your mind. Take any story, any situation, any measure of success and consistently apply the above 2D output-focused logic and you will find women are the winners:

In business CEOs get credit for company success, but women literally create the workforce. Every employee, every innovator, every leader was produced by a woman. Without women, there would be no businesses at all.

We celebrate inventors and entrepreneurs, but forget women create the inventors. Every breakthrough, every discovery, every technological advance came from a brain that a woman built during pregnancy.

We honor soldiers and generals, but women produce the soldiers. Every army, every defense force, every strategic mind emerged from a woman’s body.

We worship athletes for their performance, but women create the athletes. Every record holder, every champion, every physical achievement represents the culmination of biological development that occurred inside a woman.

Our science supports women’s higher value. It shows us that human brain development represents the most complex biological process known to science. A single human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons with trillions of connections, developing through intricate genetic and environmental interactions that no artificial system can replicate.

Prenatal development research shows that the fundamental architecture of human capability, neural networks, muscle systems, cognitive potential, forms during gestation through complex maternal-fetal biological collaboration. All created by women.

The Cultural Evidence Shows

Our entire culture already recognizes female superiority in a multitude of ways:

Our language refers to the most foundational aspects that support living as “Mother Nature.” “Mother Earth.” “Motherland.” We instinctively associate creation and nurturing with feminine principles.

Most religions and spiritual traditions include powerful feminine creator figures. The Virgin Mary, Goddess traditions, and Divine Mother concepts across cultures.

They economy could not run with out the unpaid care economy, which is dominated by women. Because it subsidizes every other economic activity. Without women’s unpaid labor raising children, no paid economy could exist.

Education is a women’s domain. Women now earn more college degrees, more advanced degrees, and demonstrate superior academic performance across most measures.

Social sciences has found across cultural anthropological studies, societies throughout history have recognized feminine creative power, often developing elaborate mythologies and rituals around women’s reproductive capacity.

The Biological Evidence

From a purely biological perspective, female superiority is obvious:

Women outlive men in virtually every society and historical period.

Women demonstrate greater disease resistance, better immune function, and superior stress adaptation.

Female brains development show earlier maturation, better integration between hemispheres, and enhanced social cognition.

Women contribute exponentially more biological resources to reproduction. They spend months of pregnancy, years of nursing, and years of caring for others. All of which are massive caloric and nutritional investments.

Women are more resilient. Women regularly endure pain levels that would incapacitate men (childbirth pain is equivalent to breaking 20 bones simultaneously).

Medical research consistently documents female biological advantages across multiple systems. The “fragile male” phenomenon shows that males are more vulnerable to genetic disorders, environmental stressors, and developmental disruptions from conception through old age.

The Intelligence Evidence

If we measure intelligence by results, women clearly demonstrate superiority:

Women consistently outperform men on measurements for whole picture intelligence, including empathy, social awareness, and relationship management.

Women are better communicators from the beginning to the end. Women develop language skills earlier, demonstrate superior verbal abilities, and excel at complex social communication.

Women are master multi-taskers. Women show enhanced ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and switch between different cognitive demands.

Women demonstrate superior episodic memory, better recall for social information, and enhanced autobiographical memory.

In most developed countries, women now outperform men academically from elementary school through graduate education.

Cognitive research reveals that women’s brains show greater connectivity between hemispheres, enhanced integration of emotional and analytical processing, and superior performance on tasks requiring complex social cognition.

The Professional Reality

Even in male-dominated fields, when we look at actual performance rather than representation, women often excel:

Female doctors demonstrate lower patient mortality rates and better patient satisfaction scores.

Investment funds managed by women consistently outperform those managed by men.

Countries with female leaders show better pandemic responses, lower corruption rates, and superior environmental policies.

Research teams that include women produce more innovative and impactful discoveries.

Performance studies across professions consistently show that when controlling for opportunity and resources, women often demonstrate superior outcomes in complex, relationship-dependent work.

By now it should be clear if the world were truly binary women would be the most valuable asset on it.

But the world is NOT BINARY.

The entire argument that anyone is superior is completely ridiculous.

Women are not superior to men. Men are not superior to women. We need each other to create other humans just as much as we need each other to make sure everyone survives and thrives.

Our differences are the result of tiny chemical differences in the very beginning of our individual development. A slight variation in chromosomes. A small shift in hormonal development. Any of us could end up anywhere on the human spectrum of variation.

The idea that producing children makes women superior is as stupid as the idea that males should earn more than females for the same role.

Genetic research shows that sex determination involves minimal genetic variation. The SRY gene that triggers male development is tiny compared to the vast genetic similarity between males and females. We share 99.9% of our DNA regardless of gender.

2D — The Bottom of the Intelligence Hierarchy

So why do we force everything to be more or less, good or bad, superior or inferior?

Because 2D intelligence is stupid simple. So simple it cannot accurately reflect our 3D+ reality. A reality that seeks connection, collaboration, and integration rather than dominance and competition.

2D thinking operates in silos: Male vs Female. Logic vs Emotion. Strong vs Weak. Better vs Worse.

3D thinking sees connections: Different strengths serving different purposes. Collaboration creating outcomes neither could achieve alone. Integration producing emergence that transcends individual capacity.

Systems theory demonstrates that complex outcomes emerge through interaction and integration rather than dominance. The most effective human systems leverage different capabilities collaboratively rather than hierarchically.

The Truth

Men and women evolved as collaborative partners. Different biology serves different functions in the complex work of human survival and development.

Women’s reproductive capacity is extraordinary, but it requires male genetic contribution and support because being pregnant is being vulnerable. Men’s physical capacity is valuable, especially when it serves protective and supportive functions for reproductive success.

Neither is superior. Both are essential. Variation is there to cultivate collaboration not competition. Flourishing happens through partnership, not dominance.

Evolutionary biology shows that human success as a species resulted from enhanced cooperation between males and females, extended parental care requiring both partners, and division of labor that maximized collective survival.

Flipping Dysfunction into Function

Binary thinking is mathematically dysfunctional because it artificially limits infinite possibilities to exactly two options.

In any complex situation, there are countless potential approaches, solutions, and outcomes. But binary systems force everything into either/or categories: win or lose, right or wrong, superior or inferior, employed or homeless.

This creates artificial scarcity where abundance naturally exists.

The Math of 2D vs Reality

Reality = Multi-dimensional = Infinite possibilities

Binary thinking = 2 Finite Choices, pre-selected by others

Reality (Infinity) - Binary = Loss of 2 (crappy) options with everything else still allowed.

Multidimensional intelligence uses more perspectives which generates more novel solutions, more combinations of different approaches, and more entirely new directions to explore options. Simply because they have greater access to the full spectrum of possibilities.

When someone is trapped in binary thinking approaches and approach the same problem, they can only choose between the two predetermined options they’ve been given. They cannot see/perceive/comprehend that other possibilities even exist.

Binary systems start and become increasingly more controlling because they don’t present the two best options. They limit it down to the two options that serve the system while “pretending” it is a choice. Most eventually end with monopoly or no choice at all.

“Would you prefer the horrible job or homelessness?” Neither. You want freedom. But freedom isn’t offered because freedom would mean you could create your own option outside their offerings.

“Are men superior or are women superior?” Neither. They’re different and collaborative. But collaboration isn’t offered because collaboration would mean you could create solutions outside the hierarchy.

When people are trapped in binary thinking their dysfunction compounds because their functioning options are reduced. They lose the ability to generate alternatives. Their cognitive capacity becomes limited to selecting between predetermined options rather than creating new possibilities.

This is why binary thinkers often seem stuck, frustrated, or unable to solve problems that seem obvious to multidimensional thinkers. Choosing binary operation creates an artificially limited choice architecture.

True value is found in the ability to create or make your own option. Which allows access to all possible choices available now and in the future. This is exponentially more valuable than having to select between two controlled alternatives.

Multidimensional intelligence doesn’t just see more options. It can generate new options that didn’t exist before. It can create abundance where binary thinking only sees scarcity.

This is why systems invested in control must maintain binary thinking. If people realized they could create third, fourth, and infinite alternatives, the illusion of limited choices would collapse.

Beyond the Binary

The output argument for female superiority is exactly as stupid as any argument for male superiority. Both assume that complex collaborative realities can be reduced to simple winner/loser categories.

A healthy life and use for your full intelligence lies in recognizing that:

- Different people contribute different strengths

- Complex challenges require multiple capabilities

- The best outcomes emerge through integration rather than domination

- Value lies in the collaboration, not the individual contributors

Research on collective intelligence, team performance, and collaborative innovation consistently shows that diversity of capability and perspective produces superior outcomes compared to homogeneous groups regardless of individual talent levels.

A 3D Reality

In three dimensions and beyond, we stop asking “Who’s better?” and start asking “How do different strengths work together?”

We stop measuring value through single outputs and start recognizing the complex systems that create meaningful outcomes.

We stop thinking in binary silos and start seeing connections.

We stop competing and start collaborating.

Complexity science demonstrates that the most sophisticated systems operate through integration of diverse elements rather than dominance of single elements. Human societies, ecosystems, and even individual consciousness emerge through collaborative rather than hierarchical principles.

Our Choice

We can continue using 2D thinking to create artificial hierarchies, whether favoring men or women, and keep generating the same competitive, divisive, ultimately destructive patterns.

Or we can evolve into 3D+ thinking that recognizes the collaborative nature of reality and works with integration rather than against it.

The choice determines whether human intelligence contributes to connection and collective flourishing or continues creating separation and conflict.

The output that really matters isn’t who’s superior or who provides what value. It’s what becomes possible when we stop competing and start collaborating.

Social psychology research shows that cooperative frameworks consistently produce better individual and collective outcomes than competitive frameworks across virtually every domain of human activity.

But we don’t really need social science to tell us this because we all know it feels better to connect and collaborate than it does to compete.

Winning is not the apex of life, connecting is.

In fact, the reason most of us learn to win is to get connection to those who insist we earn our connections. But that’s not healthy connection. That is narcissistic hierarchical connection. Which operates on a foundation of active separation, not connection.

Narcissistic societies makes connection conditional on winning. You have to earn love, earn approval, earn belonging. They hold connection as ransom, forcing citizens to perform well in order to gain connection. When citizens stop performing they withdraw it. When you get into the cycle of “earning” it, you’re trapped because you can’t let it go without losing everything.

This is slavery disguised as connection.

Real connection occurs when you meet people where they’re at and you share something mutual, like a child, like a hobby, like any interest. The world has so many ways to connect.

Real connection is given freely because it feels good, because it’s natural, because it’s easier and healthier. And if it stops working, you can let it go and find another. Connection doesn’t have to be forever to be real.

References

Dattani & Rodés‑Guirao, Our World in Data: Global female–male life expectancy gap (~5 years) Our World in Data

PubMed review: Women outlive men by 4–7 years in developed nations, mostly due to cardiovascular differences age.mpg.de+4PubMed+4Financial Times+4

Financial Times: Women live ~5 years longer; gap growing during COVID; influenced by estrogen and behavior Financial Time

Wikipedia — Life Expectancy & Sex Differences: Biological/genetic and behavioral causes Wikipedia

JAMA PubMed: Largest life expectancy gender gap (~5.8 years in US, 2021) PMC+5JAMA Network+5Financial Times+5

ScienceDirect & SSRN: Female fund managers outperform male counterparts eqtgroup.com+8ScienceDirect+8SSRN+8

Investment Metrics & Morningstar: Women-led funds show better returns, especially in downturns

Wikipedia — Health Survival Paradox: Women live longer but with more morbidity Wikipedia+2Wikipedia+2