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You allude to a physical universe which has some properties though (laws).


“Laws” are human constructs. Mental models of how we think the universe works. Models might be useful but they are not reality.


Well things happening the same way everywhere is a sort of medium with rules.

Although, some would argue the universe would cease to exist without humans to observe it (and initiate collapse :))


We don’t know if things happen the same way everywhere. We also don’t even know what “everywhere” is. However we have mental models/laws that seems to approximate what our senses tell us in certain limited contexts. That makes the models useful.


True, we don’t agree on what everywhere means. I guess I was confining myself to the observable limits of spacetime. Outside of that, who knows :)




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