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To add to Davies points:
I think there is also a chance that there is an "eerie silence" because sufficiently advanced civilizations leave our Universe, create a different Universe and/or become immersed completely in a manufactured virtual reality. Or it is possible that 13.7 billion years in, we are the first to reach this stage of biological evolution.
Not enough data... but a lot to ponder.