本文介绍了Gregg Henriques教授提出的UTOK（统一知识理论），该理论旨在构建一个连接科学与人文学科的整体框架。UTOK试图解决心理学领域存在的“启蒙鸿沟”，并通过三个认知向量、元危机等概念，探索知识的本质、人类行为和意识的形成。文章还涉及了行为投资理论、影响矩阵、生命之树等概念，并探讨了智慧、神、第五连接点等哲学议题，最终指向了一种超越自然主义的观点。UTOK试图为科学、行为和心理提供一个描述性形而上学，以期构建一个更全面、更深刻的理解世界的方式。

🤔 UTOK的核心目标是解决心理学领域的“启蒙鸿沟”，即科学与人文学科之间缺乏统一的认知框架，导致对人类存在和行为的理解存在割裂。

🌐 UTOK提出三个认知向量（科学、伦理和宗教），认为它们是人类理解世界和自身的三种基本方式，并试图将它们整合进一个统一的理论体系。

🌱 UTOK构建了一个“UTOK花园框架”，将知识、行为和意识等概念有机地联系起来，形成一个整体的认知图景，类似于生物学中的生命之树。

🧬 UTOK提出“内生自然主义”的观点，认为意识和行为是自然界的一部分，并受到生物和环境因素的影响，强调自然世界在理解人类行为中的重要性。

💡 UTOK探讨了智慧、神、第五连接点等哲学议题，最终指向了一种超越自然主义的观点，认为人类的认知能力和精神追求具有超越物质世界的维度。

Jim talks with Gregg Henriques about his new book UTOK: The Universal Theory of Knowledge. They discuss the problem the book addresses, 3 vectors of knowing, the metacrisis, avoiding despair & techno-optimism, the enlightenment gap, the iQuad coin, the UTOK garden frame, a descriptive metaphysics for science, behavior & mind, endo-naturalism, 3 kinds of mindedness, webs of justification, the periodic table of behaviors, behavioral investment theory, the influence matrix, the tree of life, why wisdom is the ultimate virtue, the concept of God, the dragon's lair, the fifth joint point, the third attractor, personal information agents, the garden fractal, a transcendent naturalism, and much more. Episode Transcript Gregg's blog at Psychology Today UTOKing with Gregg (Podcast) JRS EP 176 - Gregg Henriques Part 1: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap JRS EP 59 - Gregg Henriques on Unifying Psychology The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex, by Harold J. Morowitz JRS EP 266 - Marcia Gralha on the Common Core of Psychotherapy and Wokeism in Academia "In Search of the 5th Attractor," by Jim Rutt JRS EP 57 - Zak Stein on Education in a Time Between Worlds First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come, by David J. TempleDr. Gregg Henriques is a Professor of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University, where he has worked since 2003. He is a clinical and theoretical psychologist, and founder of UTOK, the Unified Theory of Knowledge, which is a new system of thought that bridges the sciences and humanities into a coherent whole. Dr. Henriques has authored three books, UTOK: The Unified Theory of Knowledge (2024), A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap (2022), and A New Unified Theory of Psychology (2011). He has published many professional papers in the field’s top journals, and has a popular blog on Psychology Today, called Theory of Knowledge, which has almost 500 essays and received over 10 million views. Dr. Henriques is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the 2022 President of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, and head of the UTOK Circle. He teaches classes in psychotherapy, personality, personality assessment, cognitive psychology, and social psychology. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Vermont, did his postdoctoral training under Aaron T. Beck at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a licensed clinical psychologist in Virginia.