Odds of intelligent life occuring?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Let's say "tool using/creating creature who effectively communicate with each other." Or we can dumb it down as much as you like.

I know people with the attention span of a goldfish, too. So, it goes both ways.

Yeah, and I don't count them among the intelligent. I'm smart enough to have survived my childhood, something those who know the full details tell me was extremely unlikely. I was smarter than the opposition, and that counted in the end.