Empirical perspectives on state, church, and science

Bayesian inference makes possible an empirical view of correlation-based complexity that might help one put disparate perspectives into a common context. For example, most carefully considered world views are (it seems) not inconsistent with these observations:

• Both words, and molecular codes, in some sense live, evolve, and at times fail the organisms that propagate them.
• The quality of an organism's life might be measured by its chance to be responsible all at one time to (and hence buffer) niches on half a dozen physically-distinct levels, e.g. in taking care of self, friends, family, hierarchy, culture, and profession.
• Metazoan lifeforms (multicell plants and animals) have been around for no more than about half a billion years, and may have no more than another half billion years to go.
• For humans, the free energy flow per capita peaked a couple of decades ago, and may already point the way downstream to a per capita decrease in quality of life.
• Multiscale time: We have an obligation to act in context of our responsibility to future generations, as well as to our present.

Other questions addressable: Where and how do replicable codes live? Why do the concepts of left and right ring a bell with some? Do the concepts of state, church, and science also have natural roots? Which traits evolved from our shared stone-age history are helping us out in this age of rapid communications, and which are causing us some handicap?