immediately after the Big Bang only a few eons later the entire universe started to become intelligent now to your question how do we see whether anything like that has already happened or is already in a more advanced stage in some other part of the universe of the visible universe we are trying to look out there and nothing like that has happened so far or is that her do you think we'll recognize it or how do we know it's not among us how do we know planets aren't in themselves intelligent beings how do we know ants