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4.6
The birth of existence- what came first rules or matter?
 
  A key observation of matter (objects) is that it behaves according to certain rules. Take away the rules and you have chaos.
 
4.6.1 The synergy between rules and matter  
 
 
  Rules and matter are never apart. Wherever there is matter, rules exist. So bound are these two concepts that their separation is rarely considered. Yet both couldn't have come into being at the same time? One must have come before the other.  
4.6.2 Matter can't exist in reality without rules  
  The reality is that by the laws of logic and physics, matter can't exist without rules. Without rules, there is chaos. With complete chaos there is nothing, no existence. No one has yet proven a completely chaotic state without any rules existing as ever being possible in the first place. So this rules matter out as the first thing that happened.  
4.6.3 Rules can't exist in reality without matter  
  By the same logic, rules themselves cannot exist in reality without matter to apply them. They have no physical weight nor measure as an independent thing. They are massless without matter. Therefore in reality rules could not have come first.  
4.6.4 OK, so what happened?  
  So if matter can't exist without rules in reality and rules can't exist without matter in reality then what is the answer to the riddle?  
     
 
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