Anthropic and Discoverabillity Principles

Guillermo González wrote a book with Jay Wesley, "The Privileged Planet". There these authors argue that not only our planet is the best place to be for life, but also is the best place to find the laws of Nature by intelligent beings like us.

I believe that one problem with that interpretation is their search for fundamental causes, and therefore of God. This hypothesis is not necessary, there is life on Earth because this is a good place, and life keeps it that way, with a give and take that does not require external intelligent action, beyond the structuring character of time that I mention below.

The way I see it, both the Anthropic and the Discoverabillity principles are not caused by the environment, any more than the environment is caused by the realities behind them.

Only in a place where there can be life, there is life; only in a place where discoveries can be made, are they made. There is no hierarchy. The Earth is as important as the observed presence of life and scientific discoveries, as these processes make the Earth environment what it is.