The anthropic principle seems to suggest that the presence of life is a byproduct of the existence of multiple universes. However I find the argument a bit preposterous because it tends to invoke an unthinkably large number of quantities to explain something like conscious life. This seem's to also violate occam's razor argument that if something can be explained simply, then it is the most likely explanation. Is the multiverse hypothesis really the simplest way to explain the physical laws and constants consistent with life?