There are no laws, no patterns in nature.
I run into the same kind of problem with those who view reality as their own consciousness and everything else as merely an illusion - i.e. no common ground, no language to discuss nature or spirit.
LoL...
Of course we do, not so much exploration as discovery and invention. We create patterns and laws; these things do not exist in nature until we create them. It's what we do. Man the Engineer. Most of our laws are discovered in our own machines, in our own creations, and in a few simple cases we can find an example in nature. Nature itself has very little by way of pattern and law; nature including man has all the pattern and law--work in progress.
It might be said that God created the universe, but it might equally be said the He does not manage it. That is our job, and we are having trouble managing even this speck of dust where we find ourselves. If we are otherwise alone in the universe, and so far it appears so, we are slacking off. Somebody else can discuss the nature of reality until they stumble across a clue; the rest of us are working quite hard, if ineffectively, doing things.