What I said to the machine:
Is it a holiday today anywhere in the United States? Of course, you understand, machine, that today is AEST? No, I was asking about May 27 AEST, which is not Monday in the United States. You cannot make the time cognition conversions. Machines are stupid.
Of course, I could have written detailed question of about four or five sentences before the machine got the answer correct. But the point is that the prejudice programmed into the machine by American I.T. programmers, is to be immediately presumptuous about the reference to “today”.
This is merely an example of a basic prejudice (pre-judgement to new questions). To understand the problem and the solution is to understand the dynamics of cognition and modelling of cognition:
207. Buch, Neville (2025). The History of Learning Humanism: What Most Humanists Miss in Cognition., Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642, April 10, 2025.
The essay is known as a literature review essay which combines different books into an argument. This literature review is for humanists, to show them what they are missing in their cognition, as many persons today have difficulty in the skill of advanced reading. A literature review helps those who lack the capacity to understand what is in the book’s arguments.
206. Buch, Neville (2025). Healthy Cognition: Attitudes, Values, and Jungian Framing, Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642, April 10, 2025.
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.
191. Buch, Neville (2025). 2025-03-01. The Philosophy Cafe’s History of Cognition. Discussion Sheet, Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642, February 24, 2025.
Cognition is the “mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses” It is simply the act or process of knowing.
178. Buch, Neville (2025). The Comprehensive History of Cognition (Comprehensiveness is not completeness but sufficiency), Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642, February 2, 2025.
In defense of Americans, if they want to see mountains, they have mountains. If they want to see a lake, or the ocean, or the desert, or a tropical island, or even the arctic? They have all of it. All without having to convert currency or learn another language or get a passport. Then of course, you have the lifetime of propaganda telling them that America is #1, so why learn about anywhere else? Learning sounds like school, and who likes that? …It all adds up to “the propaganda is right and America is #1 and I don’t have time or energy to find out differently until I retire” which really is sad for them.
149. Buch, Neville (2024). 2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology, Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642, December 6, 2024.
Cognition histories is simply an account of the past that is the act or process of knowing, including the meta-reflection on fantasy.
Cognition sociology is applying the account of the past that is the act or process of knowing, including the meta-reflection on fantasy, to social theory, and translating that into an explanation and description of social relations.
Dr Gregory House is a genus but a life cynic, finding meaning in complex medical diagnosis but allegedly in nothing else. However, his friends have the thinking and judgement that knows that cynic Dr Gregory House is false.
140. Buch, Neville (2024). Cognition Histories and Sociology in The United States. No. 1, Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642, November 18, 2024.
On Thursday 4th July, at the Australian Historical Association, at the session on “Histories of Teaching and Teachers,” I will be presenting the paper, Rethinking School: Historical Forgetfulness and Educationalist Theory 1971–89. On the same day I will be chairing a session called, “Teaching and Doing History in a Digital Age.” A friend of mine pointed out the many policy overreaches made, and that “Learning has been devalued by those in charge for decades. e.g. university as just the acquisition of job tickets. And assignments that reward end products not learning.” We now have the situation of the impossible (as in for both student-learning and employment for those who deliver) assessment programs that the fool policy-makers (not all policy-makers are fools; there are those who are resisting) have given teachers and researchers.
I have begun a new series called, “Spiral Historiography,” as part of the parent series known as “Concept in UQ Philosophy and History.” It underlies the fact that I am an axillary in the School of History and Philosophy Inquiry, The University of Queensland, and am due for the recognition of the high-level scholarly work I do. Last week I was the only Australian to perform at an international forum in the field of intellectual history.
119. Buch, Neville (2024), “School Thinkers” and Cognition History in our Schools, Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642, August 28, 2024.
An examination of the Problem of ‘Schooling’ and Sociological-Person Models. “The literature traditionally goes to the political and legal landscapes but philosophically ignores the language.”
“[Buch] points out that such approaches are based on confusing ideological labels. For the field of studies-in-religion, the thinking has changed greatly as conceptual schemas and this is missed for both religious and secular hermeneutics.” (Kim 2024: 6)
112. Buch, Neville (2024), What is really happening in the cognition of university managers after 30 years of neo-liberal policies? Inbox, Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642, June 25, 2024.
Rethinking this quote:
In defense of Americans, if they want to see mountains, they have mountains. If they want to see a lake, or the ocean, or the desert, or a tropical island, or even the arctic? They have all of it. All without having to convert currency or learn another language or get a passport. Then of course, you have the lifetime of propaganda telling them that America is #1, so why learn about anywhere else? Learning sounds like school, and who likes that? …It all adds up to “the propaganda is right and America is #1 and I don’t have time or energy to find out differently until I retire” which really is sad for them.
073. Buch, Neville (2024), The Spiral history theory of Stupidity: Getting Stuck in Time-Space, and Personal Breakout of Historical Cognition Patterns, Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642, February 11, 2024.
In the blog article, “Buckley’s Chance, Cultural Thinking of Trumpism, and History“, I introduced the idea of “the spiral history theory of stupidity.” What I stated was:
Historical forgetfulness leads a population into the spiral history theory of stupidity.
History, Memory, Cognition, and a Model of Time-Space to explain human failure, are the elements which goes into the theory. There is one further element, the Human experience of Regret
052. Robert Calfee. Cognitive Psychology and Educational Practice at Buch, Neville (2023), Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642, Calfee, R. (1981). Cognitive Psychology and Educational Practice. Review of Research in Education, 9, 3–73. https://doi.org/10.2307/1167182
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Dr Buch’s Dynamic of Cognition:
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