Greg,

Thanks for this new and useful video. Here are my (candid) comments:

I suggest renaming this “history of knowledge” or “evolution of knowledge” or “evolution of complexity and it’s understanding” or something similar. I continue to understand the term “theory of knowledge” to refer to an epistemology—a way of knowing, rather than “what is known”.

It may be worth mentioning that this is a macro view of the punctuated equilibrium evolutionary theory. (The joint points are the punctuations)

The narration is good, however it can be improved by editing out unhelpful pauses and other noises and disfluencies. The freely available audio editor “Audacity” is useful for this.

If your face was visible in a small window as you narrate it may help viewers connect with you and the subject.

It may be helpful to annotate the Periodic Table of Behavior with arrows showing the directions of increasing complexity. (These might be animated and appear and disappear as you narrate).

The ToK system integrates many “big ideas” into a coherent structure. Various viewers are likely to be more or less familiar with the many elements you are combining. It may be helpful to include links to the major (sub) components, such as big bang, quantum gravity, complex adaptive system, behavior investment theory, Skinner and Freud theories, each of the joint point theories, consilience, etc.  (A link to the relevant Wikipedia article on each topic is probably a simple and fully adequate source of further information for the viewer).

What is “The problem of psychology”? (Can you offer a succinct problem statement or link to a reference on this?)

What specific problems can this theory help solve? What predictions can it make?

Thanks, and I hope these observations and comments are helpful. Please contact me directly if further discussion would be helpful.

Lee Beaumont

Hi TOK List,

  I am putting together the TOK website and will be developing a series of videos on the key ideas. Here is a 12 minute video on the Tree of Knowledge System. I will be trying to keep the others under 10 minutes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10zdEJPg24DLUnNsLW6J4qrnwjP3dt_Q0/view

Feedback and comments are welcome.

The TOK homepage should be ready soon.

Best,

Gregg

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