I’m not a student of mathematics, but I’m sure many major developments in mathematics were accomplished via intuition (as opposed to rigorous deductive reasoning), and intuition almost always implies an engagement with quality. For example, insofar as we relate to a concept... https://twitter.com/attractfunding/status/1283074119219765250

...(such as a number) in a symbolic mode, we are dealing with it in one of its qualitative extensions. An example from chemistry, was the discovery of the benzene molecule while daydreaming about the ouroboros symbol. So, basically, we already do leverage the idea of quality...

...but maybe not as consciously as we could. What we could perhaps do is nurture a renewed appreciation for myth, symbols, traditional metaphysics etc. Part of that process will probably involve sidelining people like Jung/Campbell whose psychological reductionism of...

...of the symbolic has been fairly disastrous. It relegates the symbolic to the domain of self-help, or personal psychology. Which may reduce our appreciation for its intuitive value in more intellectual domains of thought.