[foobarbecue]

My favorite version of the anthropic principle is one where you say that ALL of the universes exist -- with all possible values of arbitrary constants. We just observe this one because we're alive here (and most of the others are not habitable).

[ithkuil]

The "why is there something rather than nothing" is a fascinating and mind boggling philosophical question.

A good read is https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2018/02/08/why-is-...