Or a combination of both. Ants are a great example though. Like 10 million ants per person on Earth and they are almost all invisible to humans.
I would think there is quite a bit of intelligent life in the universe that all feels equally alone.
Space constraints * time constraints make this a near insurmountable problem and then even if that is overcome then it gets multiplied again by the minuscule probability with sharing anything close to perception like the ants.
Not to mention we are going to be orders of magnitude closer to ants in perception than to aliens from a different planet.
I would think there is quite a bit of intelligent life in the universe that all feels equally alone.
Space constraints * time constraints make this a near insurmountable problem and then even if that is overcome then it gets multiplied again by the minuscule probability with sharing anything close to perception like the ants.
Not to mention we are going to be orders of magnitude closer to ants in perception than to aliens from a different planet.