  The paper is devoted to a new direction in SETI. After a general discussion
of the field, the authors put forth the hypothesis that the black holes may
serve as a physical substratum for intelligent beings. This hypothesis is based
on four parallels between the brain-psyche system, on the one hand, and black
holes, on the other. (1) The descriptions of brain and psyche, in the system
brain-psyche, are complementary to each other, as descriptions by internal and
external observers of a black hole in Susskind-t'Hooft's schema. (2) There is
an aspect of the inner structure of a black hole in Kerr's model of the
rotating black hole that is isomorphic to the structure of the human subjective
domain in the psychological model of reflexion. (3) Both black holes and the
brain-psyche system have a facet which can be represented using thermodynamic
concepts. (4) The brain lends itself to a holographic description; as has been
recently demonstrated by Susskind, black holes can also be described
holographically. The authors speculate that the intelligent black holes can
generate other black holes by triggering creation of massive stars from which
new black holes arise after the stars' collapse. In addition, the authors
analyze certain strange phenomena related to the birth of young massive stars
which may or may not be connected with such a triggering.
