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And while this can be seen as the "tail of the distribution" from the statistical viewpoint, the issue is why is religion the preferred choice of this antipodal change? I am aware that this may be better approached from the psychological viewpoint, but to me it is a puzzling fact.
Perhaps this can be explained by the Anthropic Principle smile

Civilizations consisting of creatures which are very rational will evolve fast toward some form of machine civilization. This means that the total number of biological observers that will ever live in such a civilization will be far less than in civilizations were creatures are less rational. smile