Anthropic or anthroposophic?

You may have heard of the anthroposophic reason why the universe is shaped the way it is:
It's because we are here! The universe wanted us to be here, so it was shaped to make us humans to appear...

Why not?
If you are religious you may think that God created the laws that in the end created us.
"In the beginning God created..."
Or it may be that we are created by algorithms that was created by... what?
That's anyway a anthroposophic claims.

The anthropic reason why we are here is that the universe was created to produce life or maybe consciousness.
As somebody has said; even a sun may have some consciousness and maybe a galaxy may have it.
(with another relation to time - maybe it takes a year for a galaxy  to say hello.... ;~)

The third reason may be chance; there are so many multiverses out there, so one of them must be suited for life.
Or we may say; one of them must be suited for complex things as the human brain.

We may never know, though some physics say that that we already have some signs that say that there are more universes than ours.

May position on multiverses are; why not?

That position may give us another relation to our own specie and even to our own universe:
In the far future, when man are gone and so the Milky way and the whole Universe, there are plenty of other universes that carry life (in some way) further. And probably in even more complex ways than its done here on earth.



But let's not either undervalue our place in the cosmos. Even among other universes.
It's a wonderful place, isn't it?





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