I think it's a shame vbuwivbiu's answer was killed, because though it was brief I find it's quite insightful. Intuition may be a good guide in contexts which ma

I think it's a shame vbuwivbiu's answer was killed, because though it was brief I find it's quite insightful. Intuition may be a good guide in contexts which matter strongly for broad well-being under the conditions we evolved for or situations where faculties we gained like that apply well by analogy or side effect. In the cosmic perspective the vast majority of matters are not like that. My own first take would be that with such a vast number of opportunities for life to arise, it would be incredibly strange if it happens only once, and to me that seems to be the most common view, at least among those who accept a physical theory for the origins of life. Gets slightly hairier for "intelligent" life, "civilizations",advanced technology" and so on, but the same basic reasoning seems to hold.