Aside from the decorum of ancient thought as opposed to the coarseness of fresh ink, I have spent some time phrasing the idea in the mathematics of evolutionary arguments and conditional probability. For an idea to have survived so long across so many cycles is indicative of its relative fitness. Noise, at least some noise, was filtered out. Evolution Ideas
Bottom-up ideas that spread are more likely to be good than top-down ones. This is because bottom-up ideas tend to spread because they proved to work, whereas top-down ideas tend to spread because they make sense, i.e. before their effectiveness got proven. Ideas Evolution Cultural Evolution