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Category: 2016-future Public Cognition
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Humanism, Free Thought, and Our Conflicted Times
The following is an engagement with my mentor and friend, Dr Charles Ringma, on the basis of his excellent article, “Towards a True Humanism: some small theological steps“. This is Dr Buch’s A.I. engagement, which oddly is the human sets of thoughts and human control in the action, even as techné shapes thinking and our…
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A CONSCIOUS EXAMINATION
The Setting I write this report, first thing after showering and dressing, eating with honey-toast and drinking coffee, to the computer with the Word document, to record the thoughts in the semi-dream state, an hour or so before. The occasions of the extraordinary phenomenological recall often come as a result of coming…
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The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors
The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors Trump’s Pressures on US Universities: Lessons for Australia 14 March 2025 The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors PDF copy. Introduction (Review of Task) The facilitator of this report prompted the…
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Understanding possible global impacts upon Australian universities
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 14 March 2025 Re: Following on from the previous email about Nicholas B. Dirks’ thinking. Dear Vice-Chancellors, Another informative article from Nicholas B. Dirks. Following the email below, at the bottom of this blog. Remember…
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The scramble after the storm…
The War against North-East United States Education. From The Chronicle of Higher Education (Daily Briefing: Columbia’s crises contagion, email, 11 March 2025, 20:30). Australians be warn, this could come our way without intellectual and socio-political vigilance. The Trump administration pushed long-simmering crises to a head at an Ivy League institution last…
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Mind, Body, Cognition with Ideology (The Fit of Materialism, Spiritualism, and Accurate Compatibility)
Hard materialism rides too heavily on disposition which is the relationship of ‘body’ and ‘cognition’, however, disposition is only one half of the story. Vague spiritualism rides too heavily on agency which is the relationship of ‘mind’ and ‘cognition’, however, agency is only one half of the story. It leads to confusion in…
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Phlebas the Phoenician
Phlebas the Phoenician, for modernity, is introduced by T.S. Elliot as a character from his poem The Waste Land, in Part IV. ‘Death by Water’. It is the shortest section of the poem, describing the aftermath of the drowning of Phoenician sailor Phlebas, an event forewarned by Madame Sosostris. His corpse is still trapped…
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Trumpianism is an attack on global and humanistic education.
“The Trump administration said Friday it was cutting off about $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University, saying the school has failed to protect Jewish students from antisemitism on campus.” (The Washington Post, Updated March 7, 2025 at 2:03 p.m. EST today at 2:03 p.m. EST). ‘Columbia’ is the American…
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2025-03-01. The Philosophy Cafe’s History of Cognition. Discussion Sheet
THE HISTORY OF COGNITION The Philosophy Café 1 March 2025 Dr Neville Buch, MPHA (QLD) Based on the sources provided, here’s a chronological outline of the history of cognition, drawing primarily from Buch’s “History of Cognition” (1): Seventeenth Century: René Descartes explored early theories of cognition (2). Nineteenth Century: …
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I CAN PAY YOU, I HAVE BEEN PAYING YOU, YOUR MACHINE THINKING FAILS THE PUBLIC
BUSINESS Office: 18 Callendar St, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109 AUSTRALIA 23 February 2025 RE: Prevented from Making Immediate Payment through Machine Thinking Dear Medibank Executive Officer, This morning I was ready to pay the bills and this was what I was confronted with: 1. the machine would not allow me…