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Category: 2016-future Public Cognition
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Changeling Leadership
A changeling, also historically referred to as an auf or oaf, is a human-like creature found throughout much of European folklore. According to folklore, a changeling was a substitute left by a supernatural being when kidnapping a human being. Sometimes the changeling was a “stock” (a piece of wood made magically to resemble the kidnapped…
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‘Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?’ (David Pinder)
‘Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?’ Silicon and circuitry are not wholesale replacements for flesh and blood. David Pinder April 18, 2025 I had a Conversation with my friend and colleague, Dr Olaf Hermans. On LinkedIn Olaf describes himself as being concerned with ‘Scaling co-Ownership Attribution for Guaranteed Forward Movement…
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Bob Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man
Inspired by Sebastian Smee’s article in The Washington Post. Sebastian Smee, The uncanny Bob Dylan song that inaugurated an era of dread, The Washington Post, 18 April 2025 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. Smee writes, “Dylan is the Picasso of popular music. His ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’ speaks more…
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The “Fundamental” Characteristic in the American-Australian Connection of Trumpism
Dear folks Here is an example Quora Answer. My point in sharing it is not the language or the argument itself, but a warning in the scholarship of the American-Australian relational histories and sociology, for those scholars who think that the current historiography and sociology is ‘business as usual’: What…
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Own old problems with old solutions in ‘new wineskins’
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) MICE Philosopher Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA Dr Neil Peach MICE Philosopher Management Institute for Contributory Economy PO Box 3898 South Brisbane, Q 4101 QLD 4101 AUSTRALIA 17 April 2025 Dear Neil, Following our…
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A Historian’s Future in Australia
A Historian’s Future in Australia by Drs Neil Peach, A.I., and Neville Buch Abstract: This essay addresses the potential for a specialist historian, holding a PhD with expertise in the history of cognition, local history, history of religion, and Australia/America relations, to secure employment outside traditional academic pathways. Specifically, it explores opportunities within…
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Applying Critical Thinking of Techné to the Organisational Mindset
Applying Critical Thinking of Techné to the Organisational Mindset by Drs. Neville Buch and Neil Peach and A.I. In this essay we apply critical thinking of Techné to the Organisational Mindset. First, an earlier post addressing the “Communication gap between scholars and the “organisation men (and women)” is reproduce to explain ‘the Organisational…
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Communication gap between scholars and the “organisation men (and women)”
In Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse is critical of Erich Fromm: In the beginning, he was a radical theorist, but later he turned to conformity. Marcuse also noted that Fromm, as well as his close colleagues Sullivan and Karen Horney, removed Freud’s libido theory and other radical concepts, which thus reduced psychoanalysis to a set of idealist…
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AI and the Quest for Wisdom Essay
Artificial Intelligence and the Quest for Wisdom by Neville Buch Introduction On Artificial Intelligence, “The Perennial Philosophy” shows how to do better in the combinations of wisdom and knowledge which is open to learning. The term refers to a comprehensive understanding of philosophical thinking, and also theological thinking that follows. This is…
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The Future Lies Ahead not Above…(Dr Neil Peach)
The Future Lies Ahead not Above… by Neil Peach Exteriorisation [and the Implications of a Delinearised and Inseparable Hyperlanguaged Technology] Abstract This report examines exteriorisation as a driving force in human development, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically Google’s Notebook LM (NLM), as a modern manifestation of this process. It analyses…