Natural laws are stable global attractors in KNOWING, not external rules imposed upon the universe. They represent relational patterns that have achieved such a high degree of stability that all subsequent emergence must build further upon them.

Early attractors in the emergence chain function as a foundation for everything that follows. The earlier an attractor arises, the more later structures become dependent upon it. This also makes the earliest attractors the most stable. A reorganisation of a late attractor affects only a limited area of reality. A reorganisation of an early attractor, by contrast, would affect everything that builds upon it.

Natural laws therefore do not represent arbitrary regularities, but the most fundamental stabilisations in the entire relational landscape. This is why they appear with such a high degree of universal validity.

In the manifest world this is observed as identical particles, stable natural constants and regular physical processes. The EC/HE theory explains this regularity as a consequence of the underlying attractors lying very early in the emergence chain and therefore being supported by the entire later structure.

The higher up in the emergence chain we go, the less this stability becomes. Biological forms vary more than chemical structures. Psychological patterns vary more than biological forms. Cultural and social structures vary even more. This is not because the universe becomes less law-governed, but because the relevant attractors find themselves ever further from the original stabilisations upon which the entire structure rests.

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