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Why did the big bang occur, why do the laws and constants of nature as wellas the boundary conditions seem so fine-tuned for life, what is the role ofintelligence and self-consciousness in the universe, and how can it escapecosmic doomsday? The hypothesis of Cosmological Artificial Selection (CAS)connects those questions and suggests a far-reaching answer: Our universe mightbe understood in terms of vast computer simulations and could even have beencreated and transcended by one. - This essay critically discusses some of thepremises and implications of CAS and related problems both with the proposalitself and its possible physical realization: Is our universe reallyfine-tuned, does CAS deserve to be considered as a convincing explanation, andwhich other options are available to understand the physical laws, constantsand boundary conditions? Is life incidental, and does CAS revalue it? And isintelligence and self-consciousness ultimately doomed, or might CAS rescue it?  Keywords: origin of the universe, big bang, fine-tuning, laws of nature,physical constants, initial conditions, intelligent life, cosmological naturalselection, cosmological artificial selection, artificial cosmogenesis, deism,natural theology, far future of the universe, physical eschatology

Life, the Universe, and almost Everything: Signs of Cosmic Design?