Your defense of the binary may be somewhat akin to Spinoza’s conclusions on Free Will, which if I understand (does anyone really understand Spinoza?), it antedates quantum mechanics thus: Man only thinks he has free will. Man could only truly have free will if he knew every preceding cause in the universe for the choice before him now, and only then could he make a rational decision of his own. But since that requires infinite knowledge man’s free will is an illusion. Think quantum uncertainty. To navigate in the real world, we must therefore restrict our choices to a manageable few, ultimately the binary: There are only two possibilities. I suppose this principle might be the rule throughout the universe. I wish I knew, but then again, there are only two possibilities.