Alan Boyle has an interesting interview with Paul Davies, and his latest theories about the universe.

I dunno. All this seems predicated on treating magic numbers like the fine structure constant as if they're ordinary quantum observables, subject to all the curious collapse of wavefunction business. But what's the argument for that? What the heck are these "degrees of freedom" interacting with that could justify the assumption of quantum interference effects? Other universes? Virtual "states" of our own universe that don't, uh, correspond to the actual universe we live in? I don't get it. It seems a little too hocus pocus to me. I'd prefer to believe that QM is incomplete, and isn't going to tell us where those constants come from. That wouldn't exactly be unprecedented, after all. QED won't tell us the bare charge on the electron, or for that matter how the photons carrying the Coulomb force escape the electron's event horizon.

Lots of theoretical lacunae to fill before we go boldly deducing the existence of quantum influence from H. sapiens all the way back to the Big Bang, or so it seems to me.