The Future of Religion in the Evolution of Information: From Biology to Digital Ethics

Abstract This paper explores the role and transformation of religion through three stages of human evolution: biological evolution, biological informational evolution, and non-medical information evolution. Religion has historically served as a social, moral, and existential framework, rooted in biological functions and later encoded as cultural information. In the digital era, its relevance is evolving toward ethical guidance, identity formation, and meta-narratives for complex technological futures. This paper argues that religion will not disappear but will be recontextualized as an adaptive interface between inherited meaning systems and post-human intelligence.