They aren't competing. I like a lot of both.

Western philosophy is better for elegant simplicity and easier error correction, while Asians do better with the humble simplicity of systems logic which can be more creative. The more logical aesthetic approach of a Mr Spock verses the humble earthy simplicity of Yoda. In fact, the genre of poetry I write is popular worldwide with even physicists writing their own and combines all sorts of metaphors including Star Trek and Star Wars characters and popular music lyrics and, of course, Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz all summed up by Yogi Berra and Its a Mad, Mad, Mad World. Qpid plays a central role in the poetry and the metaphors are all agreed upon because its a collaborative artform and everyone pretty much knows what works best because its all mathematical.

Very different from a metaphysical approach it uses more of a top-down metaphorical approach that can juggle metaphors for any humble and elegant simplicity because it can treat every word as a variable with no intrinsic meaning or value. In fact, some of the poems are famous for being normally beautiful and hilarious when read in specific contexts. Even the shapes of the poems are incidental to the mathematics and, for example, some are in the shapes of mushrooms, toilets, or whatever simply because of the fractal mathematics and not intentionally. The Chinese play with them as refrigerator magnets shuffling them around to make different shapes including a man and a woman that can have sex simply because it is incidental to everything in existence obeying supersymmetry and pattern matching. Makes String theory look a bit too two dimensional in comparison because everything being metaphorical means even the forces of nature can be considered to display social and anti-social tendencies. The walls can literally talk and everything gets curiouser and curiouser as you attempt to decide which are the characters and which the stage props lending everything a more existentialist style of humor.

Notably, Microsoft has just announced their intention to build the first topological quantum computer. A universal recursion in the law of identity means a metaphorical scalar theory should apply to everything. Their computer will use two dimensional "anyons" whose world lines pass around one another to form three dimensional "braids".