"The universe stores the results of its operations as nature. I do not confuse nature with reality. At a fundamental level, reality is the set of rules the results of whose interactions are nature. Part of the problem of reconciling quantum mechanics with larger-scale phenomena comes from mistaking results for rules—they have been built into our brains, good for survival, but not for physics."
Greg Bear

January 1, 1970

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Part 3 (p. 317)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Greg_Bear