coming to peace with empty space

We assume we're smarter than ants or fish because we're bigger, our brains are bigger. Then the mightiest intelligences in the cosmos must be the stars. Space is empty in a sense, but it is home to cascading interplay of light from stars. From any given point in space you'll see countless stars, and moving through space, you'll see them at different leves of brightness. If the language of stars is light, all possible conversations are the different points in space in the universe.