It is an astonishing fact that there are laws of nature, rules that summarize conveniently- (1) qualitatively but quantitatively-how the world works. We might (2) a universe in which there are no such laws, in which the 1080 elementary particles that (3) a universe like our own behave with utter and uncompromising abandon. To understand such a universe we would need a brain (4) as massive as the universe. It seems (5) that such a universe could have life and intelligence, because being and brains (6) some degree of internal stability and order. But (7) in a much more random universe there were such beings with an intelligence much (8) than our own, there could not be much knowledge, passion or joy.
(9) for us, we live in a universe that has at least important parts that are knowable. Our common-sense experience and our evolutionary history have (10) us to understand something of the workaday world. When
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