I heard Robert Wright talking about this sort of idea, I think he was inspired by Smolin.
> Smolin thinks our universe may itself be a product of a kind of evolution: maybe universes can replicate themselves via black holes, so over time — over a lot of time — you get universes whose physical laws are more and more conducive to replication.
> Smolin thinks our universe may itself be a product of a kind of evolution: maybe universes can replicate themselves via black holes, so over time — over a lot of time — you get universes whose physical laws are more and more conducive to replication.
from here: https://evolutionnews.org/2017/01/robert_wright_a/
A wikipedia article describes Smolin's "Cosmological natural selection" as an alternative to the anthropic principle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection