That is actually not it at all. It is pretty well known that watches don't create and themselves and they are designed. Also, most watches bear the mark of the manufacturer. Just because there is a watch doesn't mean that there is an "intelligent" designer it simply means that someone designed and built. Further the English word watch is often described as, "a small timepiece worn typically on a strap on one's wrist."
This statement denotes the obvious that someone created a timepeice that is normally worn in a particular way is used by peopel in a particular way. I think you would hard pressed to find someone who would not agree that the English definiton of the word watch as a noun is a man-made device created to tell time. Further, your reference to the "Watchmaker's argument fallacy" means that there is a creator of a watch.
Most people don't use the word "watch" as a noun in the way you described as a something that is not man-made.
I'm not sure what you thought you were addressing in that response, but it really didn't have anything to do with what I was saying. I brought up the fallacy of the Watchmaker's argument to point out, that what you call "man-made" starts with this notion of intentional design, whereas what we are dealing with are organic, natural processes. I am arguing that religions are not "man-made" in the sense that they were designed like a watch (which is how Creationist view reality, as opposed to natural evolution). Your response didn't address that.
Again, how one wants to rationalize is not important. If you want to prove that structures of consciousness are not started and perpuated by humans than give an example of one that did not start with a human was evolved without human involvement.
Structures of consciousness are naturally arising frameworks through which we translate and interpret the meaning of experiences. They are a set of filters whereby we process experience into meaning. These complex systems, acts as our set of eyes to reality. They are in fact very largely defined by the existing culture and its languages and worldviews, or its main set of eyes it interprets and understands reality through. This creates through these structures, a "consensus reality" for that collective.
These naturally evolve and change, as the world or the environment they exist within places a certain pressure upon them. The result is massive shifts in how one sees and interprets the world through a new emergent framework, which transcends but includes the previous stage, or level of structure it previously used.
None of those are "designed" like a watch. They are naturally arising fundamental structures on their own, developmentally.
Here's a couple references for you about these:
AN OVERVIEW OF THE WORK OF JEAN GEBSER
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/
If it started with humans and is perpetuated by humans it is still man-made.
Ok then, given that criteria, I will then say that it is not man-made, because it was not started by humans, intentionally. It evolved in humans, but that is not the same thing as saying "man-made". That is a stretch of the language I would be unwilling to accept.
If it doesn't exist w/o humans than people cause the structures of consciousness to evolve.
How? Are human brains, "man-made" because without humans there would be no human brain? Of course human structures of consciousness require human participation. But that do not make them "man-made". That makes the a naturally evolved human structure of consciousness in order for the organism to
survive. It's evolutionarily designed, not "man made".
So what really are you intending to say in all of this? Obviously, religions wouldn't exist without humans, but neither would human social groups. But the human social groups, are driven by evolution. They are not human
inventions. They are natural systems that were naturally inherited through nature. Nature made, not "man made".
So religion then, is an evolutionary adaptation to support the social system. That humans participate it that, means they are part of the components that makes up that system. They are participant is its formation, and its evolution. It's a system, not an invention.