Lee Smolin proposed a really compelling concept in "Life of the Cosmos" - that the reason our universe has the universal constants that it does, is the product of natural selection at the cosmological level.
His idea is that production of black holes is the universe producing offspring, and our perception that a black hole is constrained within a coordinate space in our own universe, is an illusion.
I personally subscribe to this theory. I also think it's plausible that the development of intelligent life may be a part of the universe's reproductive process and may end up facilitating it in some way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Smolin#Fecund_universes
His idea is that production of black holes is the universe producing offspring, and our perception that a black hole is constrained within a coordinate space in our own universe, is an illusion.