Existence can be seen as stacked layers that start with art at the bottom as an emotional representation, science in the middle as analytical understanding of nature and finally philosophy at the top as a desire for truth that ties everything together which altogether creates a unique singular entity we experience as a conscious being.

Before a being can create or understand art they must surpass their base desires of pleasure and pain and think in a way that can represent their own wants as well as create new observations and connections. Thus human is separated from beast when they begin to reflect, plan and illustrate their thoughts and feelings. Once a desire to want to want something is formed is when intellectual life was born. Language and understanding quickly followed.

Besides the surprisingly quick initial spark of the ancient world of inquiry into ideas it wasn't until around the 16th/17th century that people started recognizing there was a higher universal organizational guideline as well as specific disciplines that can simplify and better their life condition. Finding that the same results can be generated from the same repetitions, a cause has the same effect, and once examined can lead to surprising results and new insights. Thus science is born, a way to systematically describe the environment around us. As new trees of discipline are discovered branches sprout forth with further specialization and understanding of how the world works and how we can better and more efficiently interact with it.

Finally philosophy, without it we would be stuck in a feedback loop of pleasure and pain. Existing with nature instead of creating a resistance against natural causes thus creating a singular individual cause in the chain of evolution that meaningfully influences thoughts and behavior which leads to the environment being shaped around progress as an individual, group and species. But that just gets to existence, philosophy blossoms as we examine the question of why. We can understand exactly how our environment operates but the toughest question to answer is why it exists and works this way. Why organic life can exist, progress, excel and yet be grounded enough to realize a consistent justice, beauty, truth, understanding, progress, concepts like time and space seem obvious to an organic being, pleasure and pain guide our actions. These concepts are greater than the living organisms stuck inside this system whom can only try to understand why and what purpose or means they are being used for to be able to exist and philosophy is our only method so far in understanding what is greater than ourselves.