In a world progressing via resolute physical law, do they? Yes. Of course they do. When my ten-year-old self struck a match within a gas-filled oven, that action had consequences. That action set off an explosion. The higher-level account that lays out a series of connected events—feeling hungry, putting pizza in the oven, turning on the gas, waiting, striking the match, being engulfed by flames—is accurate and insightful. Physics does not negate this story. Physics does not drain this story of relevance. Physics augments this story. Physics tells us that there is another account, underlying
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