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I think you're misunderstanding what he's saying about rules. He's arguing that the concept of "rule" doesn't belong to the territory, but to the map. The territory is only possessed of patterns, or regularities as he refers to them; we can divine a rule that explains this pattern, but this doesn't mean that this rule is the reason for this pattern. The pattern may simply exist.
I thought the post was using the word "rules" to refer to the cause of the patterns and regularities apparent in the territory and "laws" to refer to the map we create. If the patterns simply exist acausally then I would call that a "no-rules" scenario.