The presence of apriori thought structures in our brain!

With the advent of empirical science, the notion of the apriori thought patterns has been put to one side, as if they didn't really exist.

In philosophy, the concept of God is one such delimiting thought structure.  Over coffee, Chuck Darling and I have been marveling at, nonetheless, the value of such "implanted" ways of thinking, as it were.  This realm of thought has been categorized as the realm of the spiritual.  I have often wondered how with so little factual data to draw from, the ancient Greeks could have alighted on the concept of atoms, claiming matter is composed of these smallest of particles.  /And was it not hypothesized years of yore that a big bang gave rise to the universe?  These concepts were "known" that is to say at a theoretical level and then applied to the physical.

In a similar vein, the Jew's rendition of the 10 Commandments as given by God bespeak a higher level of existence mankind can attain.  There is the realm of the beastly nature of mankind and then there is a higher realm where mankind can live at peace.  Maslow's hierarchy of needs bespeaks a knowledge of man's true and fulfilled nature, quite independently of his everyday life.  It is also the foundation of religious living.   But that just goes to show that the spiritual (dimension) is embedded in the physical!