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But that makes about as much sense as assuming that all intelligent species have two arms because every intelligent species we know of has two arms. Or two eyes. Or walks upright. Or has an appendix. There simply isn't enough examples to start making assumptions about what intelligent species can and cannot have, the only thing we can assume is that *HUMANS* have these characteristics.
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Ahh, but there is one thing that any intelligent being WILL have - consciousness. We know this because the most intelligent beings display an idea of consciousness - through the passing of the mirror test. All the animals which were thought to be intelligent, dolphins, apes, elephants, have passed this test AFTER we already thought they were intelligent (so we are not simply attributing a passing of the mirror test to intelligence, this was done after the fact).
When an organism starts to develop conscious awareness and break that barrier, ie: becoming conscious of it's own consciousness, inevitably it will begin to wonder about how it has come to be, what it is etc.
Can we agree that when an organism reaches this barrier of consciousness that those questions will inevitably spring up?
To me, that will usually lead to something LIKE religion. It's just a thought, but to me it's rational that newly conscious organisms will begin to seek answers to their own existance. When these answers prove to be mysteries, answers will be invented to satisfy those needs - hence religion.