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Perennial Thinking
Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract This essay explores the contemporary intellectual crisis characterized by an “immense regression” into historical forgetfulness and unreflective conventionalism. It argues that even high-level scholarship frequently falls into the trap of “uninformed conventional thinking” by misinterpreting the nature of Perennial Thinking. By examining Karl Jaspers’ seminal…
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MICE and SOFiA. Analysis of Big Belief and Big Doubt
MICE. Analysis of Big Belief and Big Doubt https://www.academia.edu/145798686/MICE_Analysis_of_Big_Belief_and_Big_Doubt Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract The Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) serves as a philosophical and structural intervention designed to correct systemic cognitive failures in modern governance and education. Rooted in the axiom that “understanding history is philosophy in practice,”…
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Professional History and Levels of Thinking
https://www.academia.edu/145773668/Professional_History_and_Levels_of_Thinking Professional History and Levels of Thinking Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract This essay argues that professional historians must transcend the mere interpretation of primary records to engage with the deeper historiography of their subjects, a practice defined as “understanding history as philosophy in practice”. While records…
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Ideas and History
PDF File of Evidence: Ideas and History Dr Neville Buch Abstract The current climate of political resistance against independent scholarship at local, regional, and national levels is not a coordinated conspiracy but a systemic manifestation of wilful ignorance and technocratic reductionism. This resistance is rooted in a “techné” mindset that privileges measurable, immediate…
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One Syllabi
ONE MICE SYLLABI: THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF QUEENSLAND EDUCATION Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: This proposal (preliminary in the first development of the idea) argues that the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) philosophy provides the essential theoretical and practical framework to establish “One Syllabi” for Queensland’s educational…
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Organisations of Hope
Dr Neville Buch Management Institute for Contributory Economy Abstract Meaningful hope for intelligent understanding and action is found in organizations that actively resist the “immense regression” of absolute non-knowledge and the technicisation of cognition. At the global level, entities like Humanists International and the United Nations (specifically UNESCO and UNICEF) provide a framework for a…
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The Architecture of Hope: From Sentiment to Action
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines the cognitive and existential distinctions between the active construction of hope and the limiting frameworks of fate, indecision, and clinical depression, as understood through the lens of Lebensphilosophie (Philosophy of Life) and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) methodology. Hope is identified not as a passive sentiment but…
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Unsurprising that the “America First?” policy failed, as it is that “Australia First” policy would fail
It is unsurprising that the “America First?” policy failed, as it is that “Australia First” policy would fail. Will Gottsegen, Staff Writer, The Atlantic Daily: “America First?” Donald Trump spent the holidays drifting further and further from the “America First” doctrine he campaigned on. The president who once promised to disentangle the…
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Temporal Shift. In the Name of Science, Noonien Soong , and The Son, Data , and The Holy Logic, Vulcan.
Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 https://www.academia.edu/145683067/In_the_Name_of_Science_Noonien_Soong_1_and_The_Son_Data_2_and Abstract A temporal shift is a change or alteration in the timing or sequence of events. It is the space-time continuum. In Science Fiction, it is film or television, perceptively moving, either forward or backward, within the space-time continuum, to produce history. The…
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Local and Global Social Harm
https://www.academia.edu/145681862/Local_and_Global_Social_Harm PDF File: Local and Global Social Harm Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: Local and Global Social Harm is examined in this essay as a dual manifestation of the “immense regression” and the “Principle Basic Fallacy.” At the global scale, social harm is driven by the technicisation of cognition and the expansion…