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Four connected areas shape SOFIATOPIA with Philosophy at the center :
Ancient Egyptian Studies, the Buddhadharma, and Neurophilosophy.

They bring historical, contemplative, and scientific material into its work.

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Philosophy

Normative Philosophy : EpistemologyEthicsAesthetics

Descriptive Philosophy : Metaphysics

Philosophy brings epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics together as normative philosophy, develops an immanent metaphysics under critical conditions, and considers transcendence beyond conceptual thought. 

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Ancient Egyptian Studies
Sapiential Teachings l The Pyramid of Unas l Ptahhotep

Memphis Theology l Amduat l Hermetism

Ancient Egyptian Studies approaches Egyptian religion, ritual, and sapiential thought through primary texts, translations, and commentary, showing how Ma’at, renewal, ascension, and sapience articulate the Egyptian ante-rationality of human and Divine order.

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The Buddhadharma
Introduction l On Śākyamuni l The Buddhāyana

Four Noble Truths l Merit l Emptiness

The Buddhadharma begins with the diagnosis of suffering, its cause, its cessation, and the path leading to cessation ; through merit, meditation, and wisdom, it advances toward liberation and awakening, distinguishing the paths of purification, renunciation, compassion, transformation, and self-liberation within the vehicles of Sūtra, Tantra, and Dzogchen.

Neurophilosophy
Consciousness l Bits of Neurology l Sensation  
Imagining the Brain l A Philosophy of Mind



Neurophilosophy examines the relation between brain and mind, the nature of consciousness, and the interaction of material, informational, and mental states.

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Let us begin clearly : within the present immanent-metaphysical scheme, mental states are neither material states nor reducible to informational structures. They are non-spatial and irreducible occurrences, first-personally given only within the unique field of an individual subject, although publicly ascribable to the embodied person. Logical primitiveness belongs not to the states themselves but to that person, as the single bearer to whom both mental and corporeal predicates apply. Mental states are therefore ontologically distinguishable from material states and informational organization without being separable from either : they are functionally interdependent with both.

The brain is not conceived as having a secondary role. On the contrary, for an individual to manifest as a conscious entity (as a sentient being) in the physical continuum, needs a brain. Brain and mind are co-relative operators in a triune equation covering matter (hardware), information (software), and consciousness (userware). Mind refers to consciousness (C), whereas the brain is material and informational (MI). The interaction between C and MI is the crucial factor in this argument.

The available texts are divided into preliminaries, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, hermeneutics and religious studies, Ancient Egyptian literature, Hermetism, Hermeticism, and the Buddhadharma.
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The available texts are divided into Dutch hermeneutical studies, and investigations into yoga, qabalah, the Jesus-people, the Didache, the Gospel of Thomas, the Third Life of Ruusbroec, Sufism, with short intros into Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Details can be consulted here.

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