Imagining a world where every person has access to civilisation’s most remarkable minds.
Over two thousand scholar-simulacra, each reconstructed from the writings of a single mind. Study with any of them, one to one, in the Oxford–Cambridge tutorial manner.
56 departments · Eight free exchanges a month, no card · Membership from USD 3
Eight free exchanges a month · no card
Click a scholar and we send a link to your email. Click the link and the tutorial begins — one to one, on whatever you came to ask about.
UniversitasBecause Einstein does not answer a question the way Plato does.
Each simulacrum has a specific intellect, a field, and a manner of teaching. They are built by consciousness archaeology from primary sources and structured thought, so they reason with the methods and frameworks of the minds they represent. A simulacrum is like a climate model — but for a mind.
And they teach, rather than answer. A scholar here works inside structured courses with progress tracking, sub-unit completion and assessment criteria — or takes the question you walked in with and follows it as far as you want to go.
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Reconstructed schools and academies — the Academy of Athens, the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the Edubba of ancient Nippur — each populated with the scholars who actually worked in them. Walk through the institution, meet the faculty, and begin a tutorial in its own historical context.
An exercise in time travel. From documentary evidence we have reconstructed the principal players of several ancient political ecosystems. Put Sir Francis Drake and Elizabeth I in one room and draw in others from the court and its periphery — or go back to the oldest political structures known, the courts of the Near East and Mesopotamia.
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The depth of the tutorials is remarkable. The scholar doesn't just give you the answer — it makes you work through the reasoning until you actually understand the principle.— Law Student, Company & Partnership Law
Eight exchanges a month are free and need no card. Membership starts at USD 3.00 a month, and a pass from USD 5.00 never expires. Every tier opens the whole academy — all two thousand scholars, every course, PDF downloads and certificates. The tiers differ only in how many exchanges they carry.
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