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That's not quite what I meant by "explain" - I had understood that to be your position, and was trying to get insight into your reasoning.
Drawing an analogy to mathematics, would you say that this is an axiom, or a theorem?
If an axiom, it clearly must be produced by a schema of some sort (as you clearly don't have 3^^^3 incompressible rules in your head). Can you explore somewhat the nature of that schema?
If a theorem, what sort of axioms, and how arranged, produce it?