I have had the same sense as Avi throughout my life, except that I was also seeking it in Nature, organisms, insects, plants, water-creatures and living places.

“I am seeking intelligence in outer space, because I do not often find it in Academia.”

— Avi Loeb

( he is particularly indicating the fields of astronomy and cosmology. also: that this hoped-for intelligence among humans is like a topological map where the valleys (lowlands) are very deep, and the mountaintops ( nearest the sky ) very rare )