I think one problem is that structure and order are inherently discretely reductive, while growth is inherently holistically expansive.

Think in terms of a galaxy, where the energy radiates out, while form colaesces in.

We are driven by emotion and desire, while judgement needs to analytic and selective. The anarchies of desire versus the tyrannies of judgement. Heart and head.

So knowledge, with math as the prime example, tries to distill out some perfect form, but the effect is to dissect and sterilize life and the dynamic.

Monotheism as a cultural ideal and role model plays into it, as well. Given that a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through the film, than the images on it.

Only children are allowed to just revel in sentience, while the rest of us are supposed to find "meaning and purpose." Some pot of gold at the end of the narrative arc.

Though time is not the point of the present, moving past to future, that we experience as mobile organisms and construct civilzations out of narrative, but change turning future to past.

The present consumes the past. Cause becomes effect. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

The energy goes to the future, as the forms defining it recede into the past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it definition go future to past.

Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, while the central nervous system sorts the information. Signal from the noise.

So our intellectual view is extracting order from chaos, rather than seeing forms in the energy.

Atoms rather than iridescence.