On: Creatures That Don’t Conform

[nathan_compton]

But complementarity doesn't have to be binary, which is the point under contention here. It is a scientific fact that gender and even sex in human populations, while having a strong binary tendency, is not in any way an absolute binary.

Binary complementarity is no more woven into the fabric of the universe than any other symmetry that you see in nature. Gravity is unipolar, electromagnetism is dipolar and the strong force is multipolar. In fact, if you look at electroweak theory (which breaks into E&M and the Weak Force) the bipolar character of the E&M field is less fundamental that it might appear.

[User23 → nathan_compton]

I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually find out that gravity is bipolar, but highly asymmetric. Something like that could maybe explain inflation.

Also complementarity isn't limited to 2-tuples. Or perhaps another way to see it is that the dyad suffices to model any more complex structure.