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Category: 2016-future Public Cognition
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Cultural Christianity versus Theological Christianity or One and the Same
Dr Neville Buch The Tripartite Spectrum of Cultural, Religious, and Theological Identity Abstract In conversations with Dr. Buch, there is confusion in the false binary of “Cultural Christianity versus Theological Christianity” or it ends in a simplistic “One and the Same” conclusion. The issue here is a misunderstanding across a belief system spectrum. There are…
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Mapping Brisbane History: Digital Humanism and the Spatial Narrative
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The Mapping Brisbane History (MBH) Project represents a pioneering effort in Digital Humanism, transforming local studies from static “folk history” into a rigorous, interdisciplinary research tool. Grounded in the axiom “Understanding history is philosophy in practice,” the project utilizes a Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) methodology to spatially represent the intellectual and…
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Dissecting Bullshit. The Mechanics of Intellectual and Institutional Bullshit
Dr Neville Buch Top of Form Beyond Harry Frankfurt’s core definition of bullshit as an indifference to truth—where the bullshitter is “phony” rather than “false” and misrepresents their own enterprise to suit a purpose—the sources identify several specific elements that constitute “intellectual” and “institutional” bullshit. Intellectual bullshit manifests through the following cognitive and structural patterns: 1.…
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Today’s Academic Patterns. The Academic Immense Regression – Denoetization and the Crisis of Scholarship
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines the contemporary landscape of higher education through the lens of the “Academic Immense Regression,” a systemic collapse characterized by the mechanical liquidation of judgment (denoetization) and the erosion of human authorship. While academic specialization is a necessary precondition for objective truth, it has morphed into a form of…
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MICE and the Global Architecture of Holistic Scholarship
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE), under the leadership of Dr. Neville Buch, represents a frontier in global holistic scholarship, bridging the gap between local historiography and universal philosophical inquiry. An analysis of the “MICE Academia.Edu Reports 5-02 to 31-05 2026” demonstrates an extraordinary level of intellectual resonance, with individual…
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The Architecture of Intellectual Failure and Synoptic Vision
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines the failures of applied philosophy through the lens of Dr. Neville Buch’s Dynamic of Cognition (DoC), focusing on the intellectual superficiality of the “New Atheism” and the pietistic political corruption of the Bjelke-Petersen administration. It argues that applied philosophy fails when it regresses into a “techné mindset”—a state…
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Re: Research Note: The Need to Support MICE. Weekly Newsletter – Mon, 01 Jun, 2026 | Dr Neville Buch
1 June 2026 Dear Michael, Nearly half of the year has passed. I am still not receiving any feedback, other than from you and Neil. I am not yet ready to pack up my bags and find a new home. But the warning signs are on the horizon. ‘One Nation’ now the most popular party in…
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Review of Peter Serdyukov’s A Growing Formalization of Contemporary Online Education
Dr Neville Buch Abstract Peter Serdyukov’s (2021) A Growing Formalization of Contemporary Online Education identifies a critical hazard in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: an “algorithmic character” in education that risks modifying human consciousness into “passive, dependent, filled” patterns. This review evaluates Serdyukov’s thesis alongside the work of Dr. Neville Buch, specifically his concepts of “Denoetization”…
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Basic Social Psychology
Dr Neville Buch Architecture of the Horizon: Navigating the Dynamic of Cognition Abstract The Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) is made up of four labelled state of affairs: prejudice, attitudes, typology of values, exclusion, and inclusion. At the most basic level, prejudice is the belief in commonality – that my perception of self and world is…
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Not Knowing and Knowing: Beyond the Orthodoxy of Coercion – The Ecology of Knowledge
Dr Neville Buch Not Knowing and Knowing Abstract. Perennially in the global intellectual history is the Orthodoxy of Coercion, where both the individual and the collective have had to deal with the “power-over”: command, coercion, and domination. In the last few centuries, it has been existentialism, and in detail: existential thought, which has been the…