[v-erne]

>> Maybe that chain of reasoning is only comprehensible to an artificial intelligence which we have yet to invent, involving us inhabiting some element of a vast fractal structure subject to some sort of anthropic principal?

And we will call this AI Deep Thought and it will finally provide answer to Life, the Universe and Everything ...

Sorry I could not resist myself.

But Your whole obsevation is spot on - so many people here is missing forest for the trees - arguing about pointless details. I would even dare to say that they are sitting in local minimum of all possible discussions that could be derrived from this article.