Is "intellectual loneliness " redundant? Are our minds hard wired or conditioned to be lonely? We believe that our thoughts make us separate. Philip Slater wrote in the early 1970s about our unbridled "Pursuit Of Loneliness". Mission accomplished. We believe either the more we have or the more we know can connect us. Is the absence of these closer to truth. Rumi describes meeting in a field beyond right or wrong. That might be a place to begin. Connection beyond or absent thought.