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Understanding Thinking in Three Questions
8 January 2026 Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Scholar, Principal Researcher, Team Leader, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA cc. Drs. Michael Macklin and Neil Peach, Directors, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Dear friends, I have a message that must be acknowledged.…
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Connecting Cognition Defeats (“hooray”) Reactionary Cognition (“boo”)
THE PROBLEM Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines the focus on security as a predominantly reactionary cognitive position that signals a retreat from the “thick” complexities of social reality into a “techné mindset” of calculable certainty. Drawing on the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework, the analysis posits that the fixation on…
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Ideas and History
PDF File of Evidence: Ideas and History Dr Neville Buch Abstract The current climate of political resistance against independent scholarship at local, regional, and national levels is not a coordinated conspiracy but a systemic manifestation of wilful ignorance and technocratic reductionism. This resistance is rooted in a “techné” mindset that privileges measurable, immediate…
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One Syllabi
ONE MICE SYLLABI: THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF QUEENSLAND EDUCATION Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: This proposal (preliminary in the first development of the idea) argues that the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) philosophy provides the essential theoretical and practical framework to establish “One Syllabi” for Queensland’s educational…
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The Architect of Experience: A Manual for Intelligent Living
Abstract Intelligent living is defined as the transformation of human existence from a series of passive, unreflective reactions into a deliberate act of “human authorship”. It requires the Original Synthesis of Experience, where an individual takes the disconnected data of their life—memories, sensory inputs, and cultural heritage—and weaves them into a coherent common world-picture. This…
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The Spectrum of Thinking in The Politics of Quora Project
The Spectrum of Thinking in The Politics of Quora Project Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 https://www.academia.edu/145517000/The_Spectrum_of_Thinking_in_The_Politics_of_Quora_Project The Spectrum of Thinking in The Politics of Quora Project Abstract: Quora is an American social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was founded…
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Management Institute for Contributory Economy: Mapping Brisbane for the World
5 December 2025 PDF File (Attachment) Mapping Brisbane for the World Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Scholar, Principal Researcher, Team Leader, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA cc. Drs. Michael Mackin and Neil Peach, Directors, Management Institute for Contributory Economy …
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Why moralism does not work.
WHY MORALISM DOES NOT WORK Please Understand, for the sake of kindness. From Thomas Banchoff, Liberals and conservatives shy away from this core Catholic teaching, Cruelty is ravaging politics. What happened to mercy? The Washington Post. November 13, 2025 “Liberals and conservatives shy away from mercy…
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Changing the Minds of University Marketers
A Post at UQ Change Makers: Early this morning I had a conversation with an old undergraduate graduate on his need to retire the nostalgia and to think about the past and present with more intelligence (double meaning). It got me thinking about the historical ideas which have been swirling…
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Where it started locally (Queensland): Ottoline Leyser, ‘We are destroying the diversity in our university system’
Jack Grove, Ottoline Leyser: ‘We are destroying the diversity in our university system’, Times Higher Education Supplement (THE), June 26, 2025. Comment: The THE article is in the UK natural science context, but where it began locally, for Australian humanities research, was when The University of Queensland got rid of boutique courses in…