Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: 2016-future Public Cognition

  • Myth, Morality, and the Republic of Heaven

    Myth, Morality, and the Republic of Heaven

    Dr Neville Buch     Abstract The literary and ideological clash between C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman serves as a primary site for Dr. Neville Buch’s application of Spiral Historiography and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC). While Pullman characterizes the Chronicles of Narnia as “poisonous” religious propaganda, Dr. Buch provides a synoptic evaluation that moves…

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  • Hedging on Christian Nationalism: A Critique of Noetic Regression

    Hedging on Christian Nationalism: A Critique of Noetic Regression

    Dr Neville Buch   Abstract Nick Spencer’s article, “Christian Nationalism,” provides a valuable taxonomy of a burgeoning global phenomenon, yet from the perspective of Dr. Neville Buch’s Matrix of Sociology and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC), it ultimately “hedges” by failing to diagnose the movement as a profound state of denoetization and Passive Nihilism. While…

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  • “They” know what they are doing is wrong: Attempts to remove the historical record

    “They” know what they are doing is wrong: Attempts to remove the historical record

    When a governance seeks to destroy or remove historical records, it commits an act of “temporal tyranny” that fundamentally undermines the possibility of social accountability and ethical self-understanding. Because “understanding history is philosophy in practice,” the removal of records is not merely a loss of data but a direct intervention into the mental architecture of…

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  • University Academics. The Nature and Future

    Dr Neville Buch   Abstract The assertion that university academics are rendered redundant by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution reflects a deeper sociological crisis: the reduction of human potential to “measurable utility” and the subsequent “denoetization” of the lifeworld. This essay examines this tension through the lens of Dr. Neville Buch’s Matrix of Sociology, arguing…

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  • Comprehension: do you get it?

      [Verse 1] I pictured a rainbow You held it in your hands I had flashes But you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years While you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon The whole of the moon   [Chorus] You…

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  • The Cognitive Architecture of Perspective and Comprehensive Understanding

    The Cognitive Architecture of Perspective and Comprehensive Understanding

      https://www.academia.edu/165311107/The_Cognitive_Architecture_of_Perspective_and_Comprehensive_Understanding       Attached: The Cognitive Architecture of Perspective and Comprehensive Understanding     Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642     Abstract: This essay explores the cognitive and sociological limitations that prevent a comprehensive understanding of reality, even when an individual “sees” and interprets the world through a distinct perspective. Drawing on Dr.…

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  • How Antigone Complex Changes Everything for Higher Education Today

    How Antigone Complex Changes Everything for Higher Education Today

    https://www.academia.edu/165296563/How_Antigone_Complex_Changes_Everything_for_Higher_Education_Today     PDF File: How Antigone Complex Changes Everything for Higher Education Today       Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642     Abstract: The current global revolution in thought is defined by a transition from the “Digital Revolution” of modernity to a “post-post-postmodern” era characterized by “symbolic misery” and “denoetization”—the mechanical liquidation of…

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  • Aging Well in the Sea of Faith and Reason: An Invitation to Youth to Join the SOFiA

    Aging Well in the Sea of Faith and Reason: An Invitation to Youth to Join the SOFiA

    This is an invitation for younger persons to join The Sea of Faith in Australia. There is a place for you.       From the source, Steven Petrow, “I want to avoid the ‘aging mistakes’ my parents made. I’ve got work to do.” The Washington Post, 22 March 2026:       1. Hold…

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  • Intelligence and Ethics Parts 1-3

    Intelligence and Ethics Parts 1-3

    Dear friends,   For those who can make decisions, why are you ignoring my global impact when you can provide me with minimum paid work? Screenshot 2026-03-20 400 Google Clicks in 28 days:           That is by one measure, 22,762 document views in one day (March 19, 2026).   I, personally,…

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  • The Buch Matrix: A Guide to Human Authorship

    The Buch Matrix: A Guide to Human Authorship

    Being A Dummies Guide to A Matrix of Sociology     https://www.academia.edu/165215495/The_Buch_Matrix_A_Guide_to_Human_Authorship_A_Matrix_of_Sociology_       Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642     Abstract “The Buch Matrix” is a special map designed by Dr. Neville Buch to help people understand how our world is put together. It looks at four main parts of life: the State…

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