more muddle than musing

So at the core of it all is it all. The journey motif, epistemology, it's all the same. The science of other, the only lens through which to perceive; we're born into it, grown into it, forced into it, and yet at the core, the spirit of one. Is otherness wrong? Can we see our similarities through not our differences? The paradox, the duality, the mind and body, the yin and yang, balance, all notions of other are they not based solely on consciousness?