I think the conventional wisdom, among abstract thinkers, is that the rules of physics and mathematics are entities from which the physical world is derived, which we then appreciate as sensory animals. In that view, the question is always a matter of digging upstream to figure out "where things came from".
But the operational facts of the matter are that physics and mathematics are derived from the experience of sensory animals, which are in the process of attempting to reduce computational effort in understanding their experiences. So the contrarian view, is that logic is inferred from physics, and physics is inferred from sensory experience.
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