UTOK links the natural sciences, the human psyche, and the collective wisdom traditions into a new, coherent system of understanding. By Gregg Henriques, Ph.D.

Gainesville, Virginia
Joined May 2013
Check out our new UTOKing episode with Layman Pascal: Musings About "Mind4" youtu.be/UdYDg4lWHdg In this episode, Gregg and Layman discuss UTOK's Map of Mind and its implications for cultivating "Mind4" practices.
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UTOK: Unified Theory of Knowledge retweeted
A great gift of Gregg Henriques’s integrative metatheory @utokworld is the idea that humans are justifying apes. So the breakdown of the US can be explained simply as what happens when our social justification systems become disconnected from the power that regulates those societies.
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How does meaning "complexify"? The Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK) is a big history framework that offers perhaps the best map of cosmic complexification to date. As creator Gregg Henriques summarizes, "genetic information processing gives rise to the dimension of Life, neuronal information processing gives rise to the dimension of Mind, and symbolic information processing gives rise to the dimension of Culture." If meaning is a kind of information processed by entities to stay far from equilibrium, then this kind of information has been complexifying through cosmic evolution. In fact, as a person operating on the Culture plane of complexity, YOU are processing meaningful information at genetic, neuronal, and symbolic levels RIGHT NOW. What meaning looks like in Culture as it complexifies is the focus of my work.
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Check out the UTOK Psycheology: A New Frame for the Self-World Relation session at the UTOK 2025 Conference on Consciousness: This session explores the UTOK Psycheology project as a psyche-centered reflection process to build a new self-world relation youtube.com/watch?v=PZlPd6Jl…
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Watch the UTOK 2025 Conference Session with Michael Levin, Matt Segall, and Bonnitta Roy on Consciousness in the World and Universe. This one is GOLD. youtube.com/watch?v=NkdUSqQ6…
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New Psychology Today blog: A New Lens on Mindfulness: How to view mindfulness through a comprehensive lens on human behavior. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/… Co-authored by Marcia Gralha, Gregg Henriques, and Brandon Norgaard.
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New conference session up on our YT channel, check it out! This offers a comprehensive yet succint review of some core points of Extended Naturalism, including the interface between subjective conscious experience, neurocognition, and self-reflection youtube.com/watch?v=HTAIRZbW…
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Elon Musk states we are "in the Big Bang" of the intelligence explosion: youtube.com/shorts/BAzqKSsce… UTOK gives us a CRYSTAL CLEAR naturalistic ontology to explain why this is the 5th Big Bang. Learn to talk UTOK! It is the language of the future.
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Announcing a conference on a new approach to solving the hard problem that is grounded in a metatheoretical synthesis of 4e cog sci, psychology, psychotherapy, and philosophy of mind: medium.com/unified-theory-of…
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Mark your calendars for April 25-26 for an online UTOK Conference on Consciousness drive.google.com/file/d/1Ze6…
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My Dad read my this quote from Carl Sagan from 30 years ago. Painful to know we have been on this trajectory for so long.
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Want a device that calms the chatter of your mind, reduces anxiety and self-consciousness, and helps you meditate better? It is called Zendo! Check out this UTOKing with Baron Short, the psychiatrist who invented it and why I think it is so cool: youtube.com/watch?v=StmdtrLM…
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