# \[BOUNTY CLOSED\] Create a piece of art for the Philosophical Thought Experiment 1: Laplace's Demon **URL:** \ **Category:** Creatives DAO\ **Tags:** bounties, bounty, thephilosophers-dao\ **Created:** [June 24, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bounty-closed-create-a-piece-of-art-for-the-philosophical-thought-experiment-1-laplaces-demon/23513 "2022-06-24T00:08:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 78
**Author:** ![thephilosopher](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/thephilosopher/32/14910_2.png) [@thephilosopher](https://gov.near.org/u/thephilosopher)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bounty-closed-create-a-piece-of-art-for-the-philosophical-thought-experiment-1-laplaces-demon/23513/78 "2022-07-05T18:45:33Z")
**Final Report** **Project status: Completed** **Project name:** > [@\[ACCEPTED\] Philosophical Thought Experiments Art](http://gov.near.org/t/accepted-philosophical-thought-experiments-art/22561): > > This project goal is to bring the academy more close to people and we think that art is the way for that. With that in mind, we want to produce a bounty in which the NEAR community can express its creativity by creating art from philosophical thought experiments. benefit/justification: the benefits of the project are: (1) to spread philosophy and its thought experiments through the artistic NEAR community; (2) to create products that could be sold by the DAO and be used to get resources; (3) to… **Project Accounting:** We released a bounty for choosing the pieces of art and then we’ve chosen the arts through telegram and we confirmed it on astro. We also minted 4 NFTs from the chosen art, with royalties and revenues splitted between the artists and the dao. Each artist received 100 usd in near. > [@\[BOUNTY CLOSED\] Create a piece of art for the Philosophical Thought Experiment 1: Laplace's Demon](http://gov.near.org/t/bounty-closed-create-a-piece-of-art-for-the-philosophical-thought-experiment-1-laplaces-demon/23513/): > > Dear Community, The Philosophers DAO is very glad of launching this artistic bounty. Philosophy is full of thought experiments, that are deeply important to argue for or against a certain thesis. We want to see NEAR community to express its creativity by creating art from philosophical thought experiments and thus learn a little bit about these experiments. This one tells us about determinism and makes us think about the possibility of freewill. Let the philosophical thought experiment be your … Payment to the artists: [https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-66](https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-66) [https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-55](https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-55) [https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-54](https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-54) [https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-53](https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-53) **Updated Project Timeline:** The project was completed in the appropriate time. **Highlights and Final Products:** We could produce 4 NFTs on Mintbase, which we put for sale for 2 near each, with 50 copies, in order to have products that could gives us back the spent resources. > **[Winner 1: Thought Experiment 1 - Laplace's Demon: “Blinded Thoughts”, created...](https://www.mintbase.xyz/meta/philosophart.mintbase1.near:b4c2ba81bb0513c21fb62027d74801e1)** > > Ever since the dawn of civilization, there have always been curious individuals who were eager to investigate the central questions about existence. Their ambition to study various aspects of life to gain a deeper understanding led to the earliest... > **[Winner 2: Thought Experiment 1: Laplace's Demon - AI Oracle - Singularity,...](https://www.mintbase.xyz/meta/philosophart.mintbase1.near:7d5876145c6817f4c992c234ae96e968)** > > Description: This is one of a series of experiments made with artifficial intelligence. In this one I used a VQGAN+CLIP guided machine with word prompts. \[Winner of the bounty:... > **[Winner 3: Thought Experiment 1: Laplace's Demon - Loop, by BoldestArt by...](https://www.mintbase.xyz/meta/philosophart.mintbase1.near:17711e093406ec2987f3b67e91b2f23d)** > > If a dice is tossed and 1 is to be brought, this is already a known future and 1 can be brought anyway. If the aim is to reach an unknown future with a known past, this is also a known future. The unknown return of the future should not be a surprise... > **[Winner 4: Thought Experiment 1: Laplace's Demon - Laplace’s Waltz, by Igor...](https://www.mintbase.xyz/meta/philosophart.mintbase1.near:c11c3e8798b1247e285a28dcc65d51f0)** > > The idea of time has always been one that humanity wanted to gain more knowledge and control over. Laplace’s Demon suggests we could achieve it, however, by gaining complete information about all things past and present for the future to be made... **Learnings:** The experiment was a success and many people came to our telegram community (we have now around 90 people), but we could see that maybe we could ask for people to write about the piece too, in order for them to think more about philosophy. --- _[View the full topic](https://gov.near.org/t/bounty-closed-create-a-piece-of-art-for-the-philosophical-thought-experiment-1-laplaces-demon/23513)._