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Do you think it takes a certain intellectual level for an animal to consider a technological species such as Humans, as gods instead of just another animal with peculiar abilities?

Asked by ragingloli (51962points) June 14th, 2009

Take Orangutans for example, which are undoubtedly intelligent, and arguably self aware. Do they think of us as gods, or just another animal with special abilities?
Would an Orangutan need a culture of its own, with buildings, inventions, etc. to compare itself to us and conclude from the difference in abilities, that we are gods?

Or is thinking of a superior lifeform as a god merely a human trait, born from the arrogant thought that the only gods could be superior to humans?

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