Sorry for the vague title but it’s going to take some explaining to try and get the point across.
So, Christians and religious people in general (I’m not bashing them or their religion this is just a good example) like to say that the earth is perfect for us, like how we are the perfect distance from the sun and our bodies are so complex and there’s plants everywhere etc, so there must be a god that created all this for us to be here, but in reality we are only here because this is the only environment that we can live in. If our planet was different we wouldn't be able to live on it and therefore wouldn’t experience it. So we are only experiencing this “perfect” world because it’s the only way we could possibly be able to experience it.
I’m really not sure I got what I wanted across here but can y'all think of any word or phrase meaning “we can only experience what we are experiencing because that is the only way we can experience it”?
Best Answer
The argument, or feeling, you're describing is the anthropic principle, in particular, the weak anthropic principle
The wikipedia page goes into more detail about this. Basically, if we're able to observe the universe at all, then the conditions in the universe must have been such as to allow us to make the observation.