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The Benefits of Symmetry in Physical Law
The laws are symmetric and patterns do tend to continue in the natural world. Evolution encourages us to like symmetry because it's a useful thing to learn. The idea that we would love to come back to symmetric objects and interact with them is something that evolution encourages. If they weren't simple and regular and beautiful, we would never have found them.