Session from the UTOK Conference 2025 Speakers: UTOK Psycheology Seed Group. Date: April 26, 2025 – This session explores the UTOK Psycheology project, including a description of the term “psycheology” as a psyche-centered reflection process to build a self-world relation. Members of the UTOK Psycheology focus group share what they learned as participants, including views […]

Session from the UTOK Conference 2025 Speakers: Michael Levin, Matt Segall, and Bonnitta Roy. Discussants: Gregg Henriques and John Vervaeke. Date: April 26, 2025 – Join Michael Levin, Matt Segall, and Bonnitta Roy for a profound dialogue at the intersection of science, philosophy, and consciousness. This session explores collective intelligence, bioelectricity, the evolution of Mind,

Session from the UTOK Conference 2025 Speaker: Gregg Henriques. Date: April 26, 2025 – Gregg Henriques opens Day 2 of the UTOK Conference with an overview of Extended Naturalism’s approach to the Hard Problem of Consciousness. He explains how UTOK reframes the hard problem, offers a clearer definitional system of mind and consciousness, and explores

Session from the UTOK Conference 2025 Speaker: Bobby Azarian. Date: April 25, 2025 — In this session, Bobby Azarian outlines an integrative framework he calls the Unifying Theory of Reality (UTOR), which seeks to bridge mind and matter through a non-reductive approach. He critiques the limits of classical physicalism, argues for a dynamical, informational view

Session from the UTOK Conference 2025 Speakers: Rick Repetti, Layman Pascal, and Brendan Graham Dempsey Date: April 25, 2025 — In this session, Rick, Layman, and Brendan offer reflections on potential ways to extended Extended Naturalism (EN). Rick explores four major scientific worldviews and their relationship to Extended Naturalism, his lived experiences and reflections. Layman

Session from the UTOK Conference 2025 Speakers: Alexander Bard, Tom Amarque, and Alex Ebert Date: April 25, 2025 — In this session, Alexander Bard, Tom Amarque, and Alex Ebert dive deep into the metaphysics of consciousness and the phenomenology of will. They explore distinctions between mind and consciousness, dialectical and scientific framings of emergence, and