That is basically what the anthropic principle says: the range of possible observations that we could make about the universe is limited by the fact that obs

That is basically what the anthropic principle says: the range of possible observations that we could make about the universe is limited by the fact that observations could only happen in a universe capable of developing intelligent life in the first place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle