I think this is line of argument is also consistent with life being easy, i.e. life frequently spontaneously appears millions of times throughout the universe basically whenever the conditions are even moderately right for it. We could replace “panspermia” with “easy life” or equivalently “late Great Filter”, in which case I think all is equal between these options within this argument and so we have to choose between them by non-anthropic reasoning, for example arguing non-anthropically whether panspermia or easy life is more likely.
Agree. The main difference between panspermia-universe and easy-life one will be the life in other galaxies. In panspermia-universe, life will be only in our galaxy, so it may have some special features, like different spectrum in some waves because of higher abundance of organic molecules.
I think this is line of argument is also consistent with life being easy, i.e. life frequently spontaneously appears millions of times throughout the universe basically whenever the conditions are even moderately right for it. We could replace “panspermia” with “easy life” or equivalently “late Great Filter”, in which case I think all is equal between these options within this argument and so we have to choose between them by non-anthropic reasoning, for example arguing non-anthropically whether panspermia or easy life is more likely.
Agree. The main difference between panspermia-universe and easy-life one will be the life in other galaxies. In panspermia-universe, life will be only in our galaxy, so it may have some special features, like different spectrum in some waves because of higher abundance of organic molecules.