Human and animal. Animal and plant. Life and Death. Spiritual and Material. Body and Mind.
Binaries come to seem like a way of controlling others than of understanding things.
In fact, some recent thought has targeted binary thought as one of the most persistent patterns of power in our culture, noting how the categories arise in co-dependency upon one another and create the scale they pretend to find out there. Erase the binary, and reality becomes an open mound of clay rather than prefabricated givens. In other words, you erase the binary and discover a multiple, polymorphous, multifarious reality. If the West is Reason, the Oriental is Om. If the West is Technology, the Oriental is Meditation, or Art, or something suitably nontechnological.