This is without a doubt one of the more interesting articles I’ve read recently, intersecting nicely with my own thoughts on the nature of existence. Taking the position of Devil’s Advocate briefly, I will say that I believe most scientists shy away from this type of outlook (the Anthropic Principle in general) not because of the tendency of it to devolve into solipsism, but because most of the quantum phenomena mentioned have yet to be proven on the macro scale. Quantum mechanics, at present, exists in a realm of ‘weird physics’ that is for the most part divorced from classical physics, so it stands to reason that quantum phenomena would not be considered when thinking about larger scale issues. 

The American Scholar: A New Theory of the Universe – Robert Lanza