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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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The Buch Test: A Updated and Reverse “Turing Test”. Was “The Falseness of A.I. Over-Optimism”
[name removed], you say, “Written by me, ChatGPT and Bing.” Well, how can I, and others, understand your ability to research and understand your research, when A.I. is involved to the extend of textual formulation to mimic “something else” which we call intelligence? A.I. optimists do not get it. No, we do not, “Get…
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The Importance of the Participation Triple-Video Art Installation and Theory: Neville Socially on a Saturday, Sunday, Friday – Afternoon, Evening, Morning
Abstract: Participation Triple-Video Art Installation and Theory, examining The Meet-Up World. ***** ART INSTALLATION: PANEL DESCRIPTION It is a long story. An occasion for a face-to-face chat, where human beings can touch. Neville socially on a Sunday afternoon (I thought it was Saturday): Well, no wonder, “Poor, Ruth!” …
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Critical Theory, Puritan-ART World, and Progressivism
I have been talking about critical theory in among many of my blog articles and posts, and I am concerned that concept needs to untangled truth from the criticisms of the Puritan world and John Bunyan’s idea of progressivism. Here is a section of a definition from Wikipedia that sums up well…
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Culture-History War in Educationalist Theory and Design
For scholars in any field there are moments when reading what a journalist has written, your heart sinks. Why the propaganda wars? Why the culture-history wars? Christopher Harris’ piece in The Sydney Morning Herald (February 15, 2024, online) is such an occasion. The truth is that there are “learning…
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Re: What is happening in Higher Education Policy? An answer from the federal department
Dear Friends, I had made inquiries on the particular higher education policy reforms which were occurring, from the position of the federal government. I sent my enquiry off, back in October, to the PMO and it was redirected straight away to the department. I had no answer until today. The answer is we will have to wait…
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Why I am not a Rationalist, but a Humanist…A Research Note
“The great obstacle that reason (Vernunft) puts in its own way arises from the side of the intellect (Verstand) and the entirely justified criteria it has established for its own purposes, that is, for quenching our thirst, and meeting our need, for knowledge and cognition… The need of reason is not inspired by the…
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The Spiral history theory of Stupidity: Getting Stuck in Time-Space, and Personal Breakout of Historical Cognition Patterns
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…
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Big Ideas and Political Distractions in Public Discourse. Think About It
Featured Image: Marketoonist, Tom Fishburne. Paid. 240122.highres.focused. Order #27607 (January 22, 2024). Big Ideas and Political Distractions in Public Discourse. Think About It For example, here are a few places of public discourse where big ideas are discussed without political distraction: Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education (AULRE) Australia and Aotearoa…
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Concept, Semantics, and Strategies for the Level Playing Field
Image: Marketoonist 240115.highres.ideakillers. Licensed paid. Marketoonist is a cartoon provider on marketing issues. Tom Fishburne is usually highly critical of current marketing practice. I support his conclusions and his work, and pay for the license to use his cartoons. In this blog piece are three cartoons to get to the point of needing a…
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Review of Frank Furedi’s “When Do You Think The Culture Wars Began? And Why Understanding Its Long History Really Matters.”
It may come as a surprise to some, that I read closely blogs and articles of scholars, who I believe, miss key or main points in their argument, whether from Left or Right. Open scholarship goes to the work I do as a philosopher and historian, and as a sociologist. These are the…