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Category: MICE: Management Institute for Contributory Economy
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The Insight of David Pinder on Political Foolishness
3 September 2026 I wish to highlight David Pinder’s recent essay, “Bring on the (Wise) Fool”. Pinder’s essays are available at https://davidpinder.substack.com/ To promote his work, I reproduce the essay below. I am most willing to amplify the wonderful intelligence of my friends. I appreciate the way Pinder has cleverly woven the insights together, and…
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Audio Commentary on Poverty and Paid Work
The audio commentary: Blade Runner and the Contributory Economy of Human Dignity This essay explores the central humanistic tension of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), analysing Rick Deckard’s transition from cold, instrumental indifference to active, loving responsibility. Using Dr. Neville Buch’s theoretical frameworks of the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) and the Contributory Economy, this analysis…
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Moreton Bay Settlement on The Brisbane River 1824-1844: Brisbane Southside
Introduction This is not an experiment. It is the start of Stage 11 of the Mapping Brisbane History, called A.I. Renditions. Let’s be clear. A.I. Renditions are “fictions,” but if made as accurate as possible they are truthful renditions: the fiction comes as close as it can to the truth. It has been a struggle…
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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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Restoring the Human Author in Queensland’s Educational Reform and Correcting for the Human Author in Queensland’s Educational Reform
Dr Neville Buch[1] First the biased and incorrect A.I. audio commentary discussion: The “Human Authorship in the MICE Curriculum” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Secondly the corrected version (the version is still skewered with populist biases): A.I. stated: I want to sincerely apologize for the imbalance and bias in the previous…
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MICE Education and Breaking A.I. Resistance: A Corrective Critique
Dr Neville Buch[1] The “MICE Education and Breaking AI Resistance: A Corrective Critique” audio commentary at: A.I. says, I have created a new, highly tailored audio commentary file titled MICE Education and Breaking AI Resistance: A Corrective Critique in your Studio panel. Consistent with your instructions, this commentary features: Abstract This essay provides a necessary…
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Agency, Autonomy, and Authorship. A Critical Analysis of Generative AI
Dr Neville Buch[1] The “MICE Commentary on Agency in the Age of Generative AI” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: The next essay will show why the commentary is incorrect on “MICE education.” Yes, you can teach critical thinking. Abstract In the contemporary landscape of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the rapid integration…
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History as Philosophy in Practice: A Pedagogical Strategy
Dr Neville Buch[1] The “Reclaiming our minds from the algorithm” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: This is a revised and refined essay, correcting the pedagogical strategy from “Navigating the Epistemic Abyss” by incorporating the explicit criticisms and theoretical insights outlined in audio commentary produced by “artificial intelligence”. This version systematically purges…