At the beginning

It is commonly believed that the universe began with the big bang.  And prior to the big bang, the multiplicity of the "and" and the "or" did not exist.   Rather, the universe grew out of one infinitely small, infinitely energetic super atom.  The various components of modern atoms, such as electrons, had not come into being.  Thus, the big bang grew out of the repression of the "and" and the "or".   But the "and" and the "or" would not be supressed.  Rather, multiplicity exploded, and expressed itself at an exponential rate over the first billion or so years of the universe. Hydrogen and helium were supposedly the first elements to be formed, but more soon followed.  Gases coalesced into clusters of stars, and in these stellar furnaces, heavier elements were formed, and after the first stars grew old, they exploded into supernovas, which formed even heavier elements.
  There is a desire to reduce the universe to one element, to one fundamental thing that underlies all things.  But this desire to completely repress the "or" fails.  We find more and and more types of subatomic particles. (I've read that the number is now around 200.)  Some physicists and mathematicians have attempted to overcome the "or" through the development of string theory, which holds that everything is reducible to pulsating strings.  But these attempts are bound to fail, for the "or" is real, and it pervades all matter and all thought.
   While the number of elements is said to be relatively small, the diversity of matter is not.  How does the "or" prevail?  The finite number of elements find a way to combine into a seemingly infinite number of molecules, both organic and inorganic.  Genes, similarly, seem reducible at first to to sugary strings of four bases, C (cytosine), G (guanine), A (adenine) and T (thymine). On each strand of DNA, these bases are repeated in various sequences millions of times .  in the case of genes, the "or" uses the repetition of the "and", to form thousands, hundreds of thousands, or more genes out of these four bases.  And from "reading" these sequences of C, G, A and T, the cell creates 20 or so amino acids, still a seemingly small number.  But once again, the "or" takes advantage of the repetition of the "and", to find a seemingly infinite number of ways to combine these 20 amino acids to form an even greater number of proteins and enzymes which in turn break up and put together an even greater number of organic molecules.
    While all organic matter appears to be reducible to six elements (hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfer, carbon, oxygen and phospherous), the "or" once again use the repetition of the "and" to create thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of types of organic molecules.
      The lesson?  The "or" is not to be repressed.  It uses the repetition of the "and" to create millions of different things.
      To see how this works on a logical level, assume there are four elements: a, b, c and d.  And assume there are one million "a"s, one million "b"s and so on.  The "or" can use the repetition of the "and" to form millions of distinct (different) sets of various sizes.  One set may be "aaab".  Another may be "abbbbdc" etc.
    Thus, we can say that the "or" uses the repetition of the "and" to propagate its own existence.   More than that...the "or" thrives on the repetition of the "and".  The two love each other.  A wonderful marriage.   We begin to see, through set theory, how diversity can spring from the lack thereof.