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The Importance of Binaries in Decision Making
The first mental mistake is mistaking a dichotomy for a problem that needs to be solved. We like to label things as yes or no, but biology and reality exists on continuums. It's not whether you are diabetic when the reality is how diabetic are you. And so our brain uses binaries as placeholders for decision making to store data. All of these binary decisions start adding up and you start getting more inaccurate.