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A Reply to Nick’s ‘The trauma fallacy’: Challenging the Associated Fallacious Arguments
Nick Cater, formerly of The Menzies Research Centre, now a fellow blogger with Nick’s Reality Bites, wrote a piece which reportedly was about “There is no evidence to show that racial suffering can be inherited.” The last word is where the trick was laid, like a cognition landmine. In Nick’s world of “Reality biting,” is…
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NDB MIND-BODY-COGNITION VENN
Populist conversations misconstrue references and semantics to “Mind”, “Body”, and “Cognition”, which are confusions in theses of hard materialism, vague spiritualism, and centralism inaccuracy. The Venn Diagram here demonstrate the correct relations and terminology coming out of compatibilist philosophies, cognition histories and sociology, and comprehensive education. Mind is an emergent property…
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Weeping Tears of Joy and Sadness: Calling Local Politicians to Accountability
Watching the video of Boundary Road Rail Level Crossing Flythrough October 2022, I wept. Jesus Wept (John 11:35). It is weeping of joy and sadness. Joy because, finally, a beautiful solution has been reached in the Boundary Road Rail Level Crossing Flythrough. Sadness because my parents passed in their 90s in recent…
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The Power Elite and American Wealth on Tuesday 5 November 2024
“Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite.” C. Wright Mills (1959). The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press. p. 31. Mills’ The Power Elite thesis (1956) has sustain the length of time to the present. I have said it…
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The Choice to Think is Human Until It is Not
A colleague of mine posted about an investigation for code programming designed for the machine to produce original research questions. It is mind-bogglingly that the question “Why” is not understood more strongly in society, particularly among policy decision-makers. Why “models can go a step further and autonomously generate novel research ideas”? …
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Propaganda: Compare The APSC Commissioner’s Directions (Not Propaganda) and The APSC Press Statement (Propaganda)
Following the Final Report by the Australian Public Service Commissioner on the Robodebt Centralised Code of Conduct Inquiry, The Commissioner set forth a statement and directions, with an apology. Dr Gordon de Brouwer stated, “I apologise as Public Service Commissioner to those affected by the Scheme and to the Australian public for the part played…
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Why every aspect of Propaganda needs to be Challenged, including click bait?
Jacob N. Shapiro and Sean Norton on September 10, 2024, wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, with the headline, “Why Scholars Should Stop Studying ‘Misinformation’.” Their article was not propaganda per se, but the headline was ‘click bait’, and for what was a worthy article to read; nevertheless, the headline assertion was…
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“What usefulness or validity does the model still have?” ‘Pragmatic Thinkers’ are Not as Smart as They Think
“But if the abstraction in the model is insufficient to describe at least the important and relevant aspects of reality, then what usefulness or validity does the model still have?” I always wonder when a person speaks disparagingly about abstraction on their meaning and what each thinks is being expressed, what they…
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Choosing Levels of Accountability: A Call for Higher Accountability for All Political Activities
An unusual story appeared about an incidence for the American navy (InQueensland). A commander of a US navy destroyer that is helping protect the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Middle East has been relieved of duty about four months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with…
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“School Thinkers” and Cognition History in our Schools
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…