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Thanks for the decent criticism! From what I'm aware, the teachings of Greek classics in Christian schools made the two cultures rather closely aligned; the rationalist traditions have firm roots in Greek philosophy, including standards of evidence, court as argumentation, even democracy itself. Aristotle and the likes were required reading during the hundreds of years of the evolution of the Western university education system. I'm a bit ignorant of the details there in all honesty, but I think today's beliefs have some interesting parallels with the Pythagorean maths cult! In today's age, most people haven't read Greek philosophy, they hold values that come from their peer group and an establishment that was built by Christian scientists. Specific ideas come from across all the world's influential cultures, it'd be an absurd anglocentric view to argue they didn't. So my point isn't that "Christians created it all" but more "the Christian tropes that aren't obvious enough to be challenged still remain, and are responsible for cognitive biases that we hold today." I kind of agree here, but I prefer the process and interaction framing. As with the other things like determinism, laws or objective reality, structure can naturally emerge from simple processes but the reverse needs some other aspect or doesn't say anything. This isn't a good analogy because it's about objects, but take Conway's game of life as an example. It has structures on a higher levels due to the differences between cells, but all that really exists is the bitfield. The idea of structure gives us a way to reason about it; a glider is an us thing rather than an it thing. I think structuralism puts the map first in a similar way. I do think the differences between things shape possibilities and at higher levels these give rise to very complex structure, and yes this could be said to "exist" or even be existence itself. But the framing makes the territory a kind of map, which leads to the kind of