Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.
Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.
Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes are strings of binary digits - bits.
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.
We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.
The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.