Every single stellar system that we've explored has been found to have intelligent life.
Now with a sample size of one you could argue that I'm being optimistically misleading - and you would be correct. But likewise I respect but respectfully disagree with the notion that we are likely the only intelligent life in the universe. We might never communicate with an extra-solar being, simply due to the sheer size of the universe. But it is extraordinarily pompous to think that we are unique, special, or even alone.
you're focusing on the wrong aspect. We remain the most complex things we know of, the only things we know of complex enough to engage in all that goes into this discussion, including the discussion. If we found other intelligent life, it would only diminish us if that life were formed like the most erotic of sci-fi fantasies, those species that have evolved past corporeal form, an erotic fantasy I should mention, that we came up with
Now with a sample size of one you could argue that I'm being optimistically misleading - and you would be correct. But likewise I respect but respectfully disagree with the notion that we are likely the only intelligent life in the universe. We might never communicate with an extra-solar being, simply due to the sheer size of the universe. But it is extraordinarily pompous to think that we are unique, special, or even alone.