A highly likely explanation for why we’re seemingly the only intelligent life in a vast universe is the great filter, something in the path between inert matte

A highly likely explanation for why we’re seemingly the only intelligent life in a vast universe is the great filter, something in the path between inert matter and a galactic civilization that prevents progressing along said path. What if there have been hundreds of human-like intelligent species in our galaxy, and what if all of them wiped themselves out before spreading among the stars? What would that say about us? Anyway, there’s an interesting podcast “the end of the world” that covers this in depth.