[...]Our ever-expanding universe is incomprehensibly large – and its rate of growth is apparently accelerating – but if so it's actually in a very delicate balance. It's then incredible that the universe exists at all. Let us explain.In a 2004 review in Science of Searle's Mind a Brief Introduction, neuroscientist Christof Koch wrote:Whether we scientists are inspired, bored, or infuriated by philosophy, all our theorising and experimentation depends on particular philosophical background assumptions. [...] The main drivers here are some truly perplexing developments in physics and cosmology. In recent years physicists and cosmologists have uncovered numerous eye-popping "cosmic coincidences," remarkable...