Category:ToK



The Tree of Knowledge (ToK) System, created by Gregg Henriques, (Ph.D., Assistant Professor Combined-Integrated Doctoral Program,James Madison University,Harrisonburg, VA, USA) depicts knowledge as consisting of four levels or dimensions of complexity:
 * Matter, Life, Mind, & Culture

that correspond with four classes of objects:
 * Material objects, Organisms, Animals, & Humans

and four classes of science:
 * Physical, Biological, Psychological, & Social

Each dimension of complexity is connected to the dimension of complexity beneath it via a theoretical joint point:


 * Quantum Gravity, The Modern Synthesis, Behavioral Investment Theory (BIT), & The Justification Hypothesis (JH)

Each joint point provides the causal explanatory framework for how the level of complexity evolved.

Psychology is defined as being "boxed in" between the Life-to-Mind joint point, (conceptualized by BIT), and the Mind-to-Culture joint point, (conceptualized by the JH). Taken from
 * The Official Tree of Knowledge Website