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by rndn 4166 days ago
Exactly. I was trying to say that equivalently to "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics", we could also wonder at "the unreasonable simplicity of physical laws" (simple in the sense that we are able to understand the properties of it—at least superficially, but often also deeply). There is perhaps also an anthropic principle here: If the systems we find ourselves in would be much more complex, life would have likely been unable to form as prediction and organization would have been too difficult.

It's actually hard to quantify simple systems so perhaps I should have replaced the word "most" with "many" in my comment above. There are also typos e.g. s/its/their/, sorry for that.