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There's something about human nature that forces us to think compartmentally. We have to arrange and classify everything from taxonomy on down to our dresser drawers. One need only look to the popularity of The Container Store to see how deep our classification neurosis goes. Of course classification helps us to clarify our thinking at times, but I think it also obscures the truth in a lot of cases, as well. There are so many deep connections in life and in science that elude us, because we are so used to thinking in terms of X is X, and Y is Y.