UTOK, the Unified Theory of Knowledge, is a new system of understanding that clarifies the nature of mind in relationship to matter and effectively interrelates the subjective knowledge of the human psyche with the intersubjective knowledge of cultural collectives and the objective knowledge of the natural sciences.

UTOK provides us with a new way of seeing ourselves and the world and it works by addressing the problem of psychology and explicitly defines key concepts like mind, consciousness, and behavior.

Adaptive Living Equation:

Architecture of the Human Mind:

It is paired with Behavioral Investment Theory to provide a frame for the understanding and function of neurocognitive activity.

Bee of Phronesis: Also referred to as the WIC-W Bee, this Bee represents wise living. WIC-WB stands for Wisdom, Interests, Character, and Well-being, and corresponds to the eight branches on the Tree of Life. The Bee of Phronesis can be considered is the “structure and content” bee and represents the goal to build and foster these four things in society.

Behavior Investment Theory (BIT): The metatheoretical formulation that frames the evolution of the Mind-Animal plane of existence via the positing that the nervous system functions as an investment value system that coordinates animal actions via a utility function based on the principles of (1) energy economics; (2) evolution; (3) behavioral genetics; (4) neurocognitive control; (5) learning and environmental feedback; and (6) developmental stage/life history.

Big History: The interdisciplinary movement launched by David Christian which functions to map our knowledge of the cosmos and our place in it on the dimensions of time (from the Big Bang to the present) and complexity (from subatomic particles to societies).

Character Adaptation Systems Theory (CAST): Refers to the first key idea in the Unified Approach to Psychotherapy. It maps the processes of human adaptation via three contexts (i.e., bio-physiological, learning and developmental, and socio-cultural) and five systems (habit, experiential, relational, defensive, and justification), which align with the central insights of the major approaches to individual therapy (i.e., behavioral, emotion focused, psychodynamic, and cognitive).

Culture: When capitalized, Culture refers to the large-scale system of justification that coordinate the actions of people and legitimize sanctions and rewards.

It should be differentiated from small “c” culture, which refers to the learned and shared behavioral investment repertoires, as such processes are present in many animals.

Dragon’s Lair: Refers to the domain of neurotic suffering and misery that many people find themselves trapped within.

the justification of knowledge, and represents them in a way that bridges the more scientific/analytical elements with the more subjective and social elements.

Educational Infinity Loop:

Enlightenment Gap:

the philosophical mind-body problem

The downstream consequence is the Problem of Psychology and a chaotic fragmented pluralistic state of knowledge more generally.

Energy Information Implicate Order: The foundational substance or “implicate order” that resides beneath the Matter dimension of complexification on the ToK System, framed by both the state of the universe just prior to the Big Bang and analyzed in quantum field theory.

Epistemology

epistemic refers to the knowing process, and can refer to the ways creatures like plants, animals, or humans take in information to make predictions about how to act.

Epistemological Gap: Refers to the inability to directly observe another sentient beings’ subjective conscious experience of being in the world (i.e., Mind2 in animals). It can also be framed as the gap between first person and third person empiricism, which explains why Mind2 exists across an epistemological gap for natural science.

ESP-A Updated Tripartite Model of Human Consciousness:

Experiential (or primate) self:

represents a meta-mathematical way to frame the conceptual operators that emerge in quantum mechanics in the case of the “simplest possible measured behavioral event,” which can be thought of as the least actionable event that can be measured to yield information.

This notation then is used to symbolize the basic schematic structure of “observing behavioral frequencies,” such that the “2 π i” represents the imaginal, epistemic, semantic informational frame, and the f represents the corresponding pattern of kinetic energy change.

Human Identity Function[al Matrix]: The human identity function refers to the moment of onticepistemic awareness, where by a conscious human being is experiencing something and is aware of that experience. This experience is then nested in a history of experiences, as well as projected into a set of anticipated experiences, which is the whole of the human identity functional matrix.

Justification Systems Theory (JUST): The metatheoretical joint point that frames the evolution of the Culture-Person planeofexistence on the ToK System.

Metamodernism: A post-postmodern sensibility that seeks to resolve or transcend the tensions between modernism and its focus on sincerity, reason, and progress, and postmodernism’s emphasis on irony and deconstructing the social construction of knowledge.

refers to the most zoomed out abstract frame that one uses to understand the world and our knowledge of it.

Mind2 is the mental domain involving the subjective conscious experience of being in the world, which is only available via the first-person point of view.

Mind3: The domain of the mental involving self-conscious reflection and justification of one’s actions on the social stage. As framed by Justification Systems Theory, it is present only in humans and is the process by which humans are socialized to participate on the Culture-Person plane of existence. The Map of Mind divides Mind3 into the private narrating domain of the ego (Mind3a) and what is shared publicly with others (Mind3b).

Scientific ontology refers to the maps of reality that science develops, such as atomic theory and the Periodic Table of the Elements. The ontic refers to reality as it exists independently of human beliefs,

Rogerian Filter: Refers to how individuals filter private thoughts and deliver them in different public spheres depending on the dynamics of social influence and the public image they are attempting to manage. It can also be described as the “private to public filter”

UTOK-20: Refers to the structure of the entire UTOK system, which includes the four fundamental problems and the 20 key ideas.

UTOK’s Theory of the Week: Aligns each day of the week with a layer in UTOK’s model of the world. Monday corresponds to the Void-Darkness, Tuesday the birth of Energy-Information, Wednesday the Matter-Object Plane, Thursday the Life Organism Plane, Friday the Mind-Animal Plane, Saturday the Culture-Person plane, and Sunday is God-Moon day, which aligns with the transcendent.

Wisdom Energy Icon: The third idea in the UTOK Seed of Life, it represents the cultivation of wisdom energy. It is positioned as a metaphor for the mitochondria of the cell, which is the center of energy production. The Icon represents the process by which energy can be wisely metabolized and directed.

UTOK, the Unified Theory of Knowledge, is a new system of understanding that clarifies the nature of mind in relationship to matter and effectively interrelates the subjective knowledge of the human psyche with the intersubjective knowledge of cultural collectives and the objective knowledge of the natural sciences.

UTOK provides us with a new way of seeing ourselves and the world and it works by addressing the problem of psychology and explicitly defines key concepts like mind, consciousness, and behavior.