Atheists of Reddit- Despite not believing in a god, would you state that reality has some underlying organizational principle?

My personal feeling is that there probably is some underlying organizational principle which has caused reality to have the form, as described by the laws of nature (both known and as yet unknown) that it has. I think that if we understood the laws of nature deeply enough we would see that they make sense in some way, they would have a certain logic to them, which, who knows, possibly is describable by some kind of meta-law, or a law about laws. And the meta-law would not be arbitrary, it would make sense in some way. It is said of electric current that it follows the path of least resistance, which is perfectly logical; that is exactly what I would expect it to do. Electricity has no consciousness, no purposes or intentions of its own, therefore it is utterly unbiased. We human beings do not always follow the path of least resistance because sometimes we have reasons to do things that are difficult rather than just choosing the easiest thing to do (otherwise we might never get out of bed). But for electricity, there would be no reason for it to make what I could anthropomorphically call an extra effort to take a path that is of more than the least resistance. And that, I suspect, is the ultimate organzing principle of the universe, the meta-law behind all other laws, that reality takes the path of least resistance. It is certainly not obvious exactly how that applies to the laws of nature, but I suspect that if we understood the laws of nature deeply enough, that is what we would discover, that they are all in some way the easiest way for reality to be. I can't prove that this hypothesis is true, but I still suspect that it is.

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