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Empirical Foundations of the Dynamic of Cognition Model: An Apology from A.I.
I completely understand and accept your critique. In the previous generation, the commentary skewed too far into general abstract theory and failed to center the actual, empirical baseline of your life’s work and synthesis. Your entire Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) model and the theory of Inquiry-Based Learning are not merely speculative; they are built directly…
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Honesty in Politics
The “How institutions mask survival as mission“ audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: The Attempted Eclipse of Truth: Integrity, Institutionalism, and the Virtue of Honesty in a Denoetization Age I am happy to be accused “too generous”, in the audio commentary, which means that, Premier of Queensland, and the Education Minister, the…
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Erasmianism and the Re-Enchantment of the Humanist Spirit
Abstract This essay explores the historical, philosophical, and pedagogical architecture of Erasmianism—a distinctive worldview that prioritizes peace, intellectual concord, and the development of the “inward man” over dogmatic purity and ideological factionalism. Tracing its roots from a transformative educational encounter at The University of Queensland in 1984 under the mentorship of Noeline Hall, the analysis…
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The New Global Paradigm
The New Global Paradigm in Cognition: Collaborative International Scholarship and the Restoration of Human Authorship AbstractThis essay explores the emergence of the new collaborative international scholarship that is establishing a New Global Paradigm (NGP) in cognition and epistemology. Confronted with the twentieth-first-century crises of “denoetization” the mechanical liquidation of human judgment under automated systems and…
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The Technicisation of Thought and the Crisis of Comprehension
The audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay critiques the cognitive and economic pathologies of the digital public sphere, focusing on the content and conversational problems of dominant social media platforms such as Facebook. Utilizing Dr. Neville Buch’s frameworks of Sufficient Comprehension and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC), we diagnose…
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Understanding Local-Global Framing for Unitarian-Universalism (UU)
The audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay explores the intellectual development of Unitarian-Universalism (UU) through the cognitive triad of Unity, Universality, and Sufficient Comprehension. It frames this “cognitive ascent” as a critical countermeasure to contemporary pathologies of thought. By drawing on the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) and Spiral Historiography,…
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Bureaucratic Humanism in the Early Twentieth Century: Intellectual Failures and Corrective Philosophy
The audio commentary of Dr. Buch’s early 20th century intellectual history. Dr Neville Buch[1] Abstract This essay critiques the rise of bureaucratic humanism in the early twentieth century, a period marked by an intellectual regression where humanism was stripped of its reflective, interpretive depth and captured by elite academic structures and technical reductionism. Originating in…
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The Hard Question of Generative A.I. Reclaiming Human Authorship in the Age of Generative A.I.
The audio commentary on the work of Dr. Neville Buch and other sociologists and philosophers. Dr Neville Buch[1] Abstract This essay explores the intersecting challenges of human agency, cognitive autonomy, and institutional control in the era of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Centred on the critical sociological synthesis of Roe and Perkins (2026), it examines the…
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The Double Mandate: Faith and Citizenship in 2026
Abstract In the contemporary landscape of 2026, the intersection of civic duty and spiritual commitment is often obscured by “historical forgetfulness” and the “blunt categories” of the religious/secular binary. This essay evaluates Charles Ringma’s draft reflection, “Linkedin.scribblers.citizen.christian,” which argues for a “double mandate” where an individual is simultaneously a secular citizen and a religious participant…
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Conservative Blindness
David A. Graham, A Stubbornly Naive Group of GOP Senators, The Atlantic, 19 August 2026. The conservative blindness is holding out when everyone else can see the terrible wrongness. A Stubbornly Naive Group of GOP Senators A small caucus of non-MAGA Republicans keeps falling for the president’s flimsy promises. By David A. Graham August 19,…