I’d argue the reverse. We restrict the range of civilizational activity to make more predictable phenomena more normal. Both math and science would be less useful in the wild. Civilization creates math/science unreasonable effectiveness bubbles.
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“All laws are contingent” is probably my minimalist Hume++ epistemology. But inventions can be absolute. Therefore engineers are higher status than mathematicians or scientists. QED This is Rao’s law and theorem

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“Laws are contingent, inventions are absolute” is a great argument for asking “how can we do x” by default rather than “can we do x”
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