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Category: 2016-future Public Cognition
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The History of Learning Humanism: What Most Humanists Miss in Cognition.
This essay has taken four books (in this order): Bakewell, Sarah (2023). Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Thinking, Enquiry and Hope, London: Chatto & Windus. Hayot, Eric (2021). Humanist Reason: A History, An Argument, A Plan, Columbia University Press. Radhakrishnan, R. (2008). History, the Human, and the World Between, Duke University…
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Healthy Cognition: Attitudes, Values, and Jungian Framing
I thank Dave Benson for bringing this to my attention, and acknowledge Tim Keller’s essay at “A Biblical Critique of Secular Justice and Critical Theory” (at https://gospelinlife.com/article/a-biblical-critique-of-secular-justice-and-critical-theory/) for his engagement, and thank him for the use of the graph: I am not critical of Keller’s “Biblical Critique of Secular…
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2025 and forward, Dr Neville Buch’s Message
Drawing on the sources, Dr Neville Buch’s message across time, as reflected in his curriculum vitae, publications, and other writings, centres on the critical understanding of history, cognition, education, and their intricate relationships, particularly within the context of Queensland intellectual history and policy. His work consistently emphasizes the importance of historiography as a tool for…
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Werner Francis Schultze on “Three Options in Lebensphilosophie; the Third Option Not Philosophy — A Curse”
Novus Tempus, an institute for humanistic peace research with a focus on energies in a geostrategic context, was founded as an independent and self-financed institute in 2016. Under the direction of cum laude, Dipl.-Ing., MEng App.Sc, B.Arch., Werner Francis Schultze takes on geostrategic problems and perspectives arising from a globally networked world are examined. In…
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Socio-Political-Culture Mass Attitudes
But it is also a tragedy that the Cybertruck has become the most partisan car in existence—more so than the Prius, or the Hummer, or any kind of Subaru. The Cybertruck, an instantly meme-able and very weird car, could have helped America fall in love with EVs. Instead, it is doing the opposite. The revolt against…
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Logic and What fits
A colleague passed on an article on “fixation”. “Fixations form the basis of stable cognition and behaviour through projection, where the organism imposes cognitive content on itself and the world to form stable percepts. This leads to the idea that the brain functions as a fixation-projection machine.” I do not disagree, generally speaking. …
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The Nature of Understanding
What is wrong with marketing on social media and elsewhere? I am talking about marketing which refers to personal opinions of what is the best option. That’s the problem of platforms of Tiktok and Facebook. There is nothing wrong in giving personal opinions, but on social media, as with the millennia…
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The Greatest Problem of Today’s Politics
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 March 2025 Re: Public Statement of What is the Greatest Problem of Today’s Politics: Political Players Impoverishing the Public Associations and Persons Therein Dear friends, Provided here is a free reading of an article: Carolyn Y.…
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Mathematical monism, Perceptive Pluralism, and Intent
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-) observation that: “Undoubted, in reality there are not three worlds, but only one, and the true…
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The Cognitive Barrier of Prejudice
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 observation is the hermeneutics. That is, everyone is subject to…