“For that to happen, the laws of physics must have a very special property. They permit—they mandate—their own comprehensibility. And you can take this further. If it’s true that the world is comprehensible, that we’re capable of understanding it, then in order to understand the behavior of humans, you need to understand everything! Since the structure of quasars is represented in the brains of human scientists, the behavior of scientists depends on the behavior of quasars. To predict what papers a physicist will write next year, you have to know something about quasars. By the same argument,
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