Religion as an Evolutionary Regulatory System: A Cybernetic Framework from Biological Homeostasis to Information Evolution and AGI Alignment

Religion has persisted across all known human civilizations, indicating an adaptive regulatory function rather than a purely cultural or theological role. This paper presents a systems and cybernetic framework in which religion, science, and artificial general intelligence (AGI) are understood as successive evolutionary regulatory mechanisms governing human decision-making. Religion is analyzed as an early feedback control system that stabilized behavior under conditions of biological vulnerability and informational scarcity through symbolic norms and emotional feedback. As human evolution transitioned into an information-rich environment, the limitations of fixed belief-based regulation became increasingly apparent. To address this regulatory mismatch, the paper introduces the universal law of balance in nature as a unifying systems-level constraint applicable to biological, social, and artificial decision-making systems. Through formal modeling and real-world examples, a balance-constrained framework is proposed for education, governance, and AGI alignment that preserves the psychological and ethical functions of religion while enabling adaptive correction in modern high-speed information systems.