What about life in the stars themselves? (Score 1)

Seems to be available energy that is one of the main driving factors for the possibility of life. Anyone ever considered that most of the energy in the universe is contained in the stars so they may in fact be teeming with life? I have a theory that this is indeed the case, and that for intelligent life the speed of concious processes is directly related to the thermodynamic activity of the surrounding environment. That would mean that any thought processes of such creatures would be happening at an incredible rate; to them, we would seem to be as inanimate as rocks. If that is so, I'm not sure why we haven't seen any signs of intelligent behaviour; perhaps we're not looking for the right indicators. I'm not sure what kind of activity one would expect such star dwellers to get up to. Anyone know if there has been any speculation about this before?