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that's a common trope, though. Baxter did it the Xeelee Sequence: the monads selected our particular universe "seed" bc it was amicable to life, and the proto-Xeelee and others tweaked universal constants (via unexplained methods) in the first few millionths of a second after the Big Bang that allowed for, well, us. And there's too many to list of the whole "Ancients/Precursors" who basically made intelligent life or whatever.