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Category: Something I have Just Learnt Series
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Aesthetic Legitimacy and the Dynamic of Cognition
Dr Neville Buch[1] The audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay evaluates the “Lifestyle State” thesis proposed by independent scholar Arif Jameel through the lens of Dr. Neville Buch’s “Dynamic of Cognition” (DoC) framework. Jameel’s thesis posits a structural succession of institutional and state legitimacy, arguing that the public evaluation…
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Boring Writing, Boring Life: An experiment in Free Thought
Dr Neville Buch I have yet again come to free thought in a serious way. A stream of consciousness writing. I am bored. It is not as if there are no tasks which could fill time-space. But I can’t be excited to work. It is the blues of today’s philosopher: why bother? Each person is…
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The Story of the 2026 Canberra Trip: Intellectual Lessons
The Story of the 2026 Canberra Trip 22 June 2026 Dr Neville Buch I am alive. That is what is the most extraordinary thing about a road trip. That you survived the road and the sojourn of the unfamiliar landscape. The feeling is of a solider returning home from war, although much less traumatic. Let…
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The Sensory Gateway: From Passive Comfort to Ethical Caring
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines the pivotal roles of pleasurable-comfortableness and discomforting pain as sensory and psychological gateways within the philosophical frameworks of Bernard Williams, Bernard Stiegler, Susan Haack, and Nel Noddings. Drawing on the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) framework, the analysis identifies “pleasurable comfort” as the primary characteristic of the…
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The Cognitive Organic Mechanics of Outlander’s Historical Workshop
PDF FILE: The Cognitive Organic Mechanics of Outlander’s Historical Workshop https://www.academia.edu/166781431/The_Cognitive_Organic_Mechanics_of_Outlander_s_Historical_Workshop The Outlander Workshop: Cognitive Landscapes of the 18th Century I. Contractarianism and the Strategic Social Deal In Outlander, the social structures of 1743 Scotland are characterized by a Hobbesian Contractarianism. This political theory posits that legitimate authority…
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Great Campus Vibe Shift?
Image: The Dynamic of Cognition for the Great Campus Vibe Shift? I woke up this morning and found yet another academic fashion. What in hell’s name is Great Campus Vibe Shift? Google was not particularly helpful with the first attempt. But then I asked the more open question, what is…
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Dr Neil Peach’s Dot-Points on “Political Problem”
Following insights on the structure of human life from Dr Michael Macklin, Dr Neil Peach wrote: “I can add some less remarkable points.” There is a predisposition in many social settings to avoid the political because – the small p and the capital P are conflated. Many genuine political discussions…
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No Blame: Understanding a Difficult Narrative
Many times, you hear a pattern of conversation, which goes: Person A: “Stop blaming me” Person B: “I’m not blaming you, you’re blaming me” Person A: “No, I am not. You are blaming me.” Person B: “No, I am not”… Bernard Williams did much work in understanding the problem of…
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Why Open-Humanistic Unitarian-Universalism?
The long title of the article: Why Open-Humanistic Unitarian-Universalism is at the Heart of Things in 21st Century? In recent times I have signed off my communication, “May I not hope to be heard with candor? God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth…
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Re: Why do we understand how others read “Humanism”?
Death and life flourishing is at the centre of our humanity. Which is why we understand how others read “Humanism”. Each person has their own ideas of what is the experience of death and life, but, surprise, surprise (Gomer Pyle), we find others have different ideas. Understanding others is, thus, only possible in common schemas…