Absolutely, but Penrose was a brilliant man; he surely understood the biological and scientific explanations of it all. Yet, he still held some mysterious belie

Absolutely, but Penrose was a brilliant man; he surely understood the biological and scientific explanations of it all. Yet, he still held some mysterious belief that there was something magical about the process. This belief comes from the self-selection bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-selection_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-selection_bias) (NOTE: not natural selection or evolutionary selection; there's a conflict of terms between probability theory and biology there—sorry for the confusion) I spoke of, and many people share it. From our individual perspective, or even from a human-wide perspective (which are the ones most familiar to all of us) we appear extremely special, extremely lucky to exist at all; to have been in the right place at the right time to undergo this process of evolution. The anthropic principle simply invalidates this mystery: it is not special, it simply happened, and because it happened, we exist to observe it. It doesn't care to explain evolution in any biological or scientific way; it only seeks to remove all doubt that it was able to happen at all.