A colleague offered a conundrum, which today I believe should be dissolved as Wittgenstein's bewitchment of language. He contrasted Karl Popper's (1902-1994) Three Worlds of Knowledge -- Platonic, Physical, Mental -- with Roger Penrose's (1931-)...
PDF Copy. A.04 The Cognitive Barrier of Prejudice "Prejudice is a mist, which in our eyes, obscures the truth and prevents us from seeing the real worth of others." - Lord Shaftesbury Prejudice is one subject where we are all subject, where the...
The following is an engagement with my mentor and friend, Dr Charles Ringma, on the basis of his excellent article, "Towards a True Humanism: some small theological steps". This is Dr Buch's A.I. engagement, which oddly is the human sets of thoughts and human control...
The Setting I write this report, first thing after showering and dressing, eating with honey-toast and drinking coffee, to the computer with the Word document, to record the thoughts in the semi-dream state, an hour or so before. The occasions of...
The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors Trump’s Pressures on US Universities: Lessons for Australia 14 March 2025 The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors PDF copy....
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 14 March 2025 Re: Following on from the previous email about Nicholas B. Dirks' thinking. Dear Vice-Chancellors, Another...
The War against North-East United States Education. From The Chronicle of Higher Education (Daily Briefing: Columbia's crises contagion, email, 11 March 2025, 20:30). Australians be warn, this could come our way without intellectual and socio-political...
Hard materialism rides too heavily on disposition which is the relationship of ‘body’ and ‘cognition’, however, disposition is only one half of the story. Vague spiritualism rides too heavily on agency which is the relationship of ‘mind’ and ‘cognition’,...
Phlebas the Phoenician, for modernity, is introduced by T.S. Elliot as a character from his poem The Waste Land, in Part IV. ‘Death by Water’. It is the shortest section of the poem, describing the aftermath of the drowning of Phoenician sailor Phlebas, an...