# \[PROPOSAL\] Philosophical Thought Experiments Art (fourth edition) **URL:** \ **Category:** Creatives DAO\ **Tags:** proposals, thephilosophers-dao\ **Created:** [September 5, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/proposal-philosophical-thought-experiments-art-fourth-edition/28217 "2022-09-05T13:51:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 10:40am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/proposal-philosophical-thought-experiments-art-fourth-edition/28217/2 "2022-12-11T10:40:11Z")
**Project Report** **Status: Completed** Budget: 400 usdc Spent: 300 usdc (100 usdc was not claimed, however the task was fulfilled, so this resource returned to the treasury) Project: > [@\[PROPOSAL\] Philosophical Thought Experiments Art (fourth edition)](http://gov.near.org/t/proposal-philosophical-thought-experiments-art-fourth-edition/28217): > > 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… **Bounty generated by the project:** > [@\[BOUNTY CLOSED\] Create a piece of art for the Philosophical Thought Experiment 4: The Famous Violinist](http://gov.near.org/t/bounty-closed-create-a-piece-of-art-for-the-philosophical-thought-experiment-4-the-famous-violinist/28805/34): > > i hope you can give me a chance to be part of this bounty, even i submitted late. I swear i’ve been doing this for days and finished it on the right time. I just encountered problem while exporting. **Project Accounting:** We released a bounty for choosing 4 different pieces of art to express a philosophical experiment, and mint them as NFTs, in order to stimulate the philosophers to use the blockchain and the development of NFTs from philosophical material. We’ve chosen the artworks through telegram and we confirmed it on [astro](https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-103). We minted 4 NFTs, from the chosen artworks, with royalties and revenues divided between the philosophers and the dao. Each artist received 100 usd in near. **Payout to the winners** (3 members of the community receiving 100 usd in USDC each - one of them did not request payment): [https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-193](https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-193) [https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-187](https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-187) [https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-182](https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-182) **Updated Project Timeline:** The project was completed in the appropriate time, although one of the winners minted the art, but did not request for payment. **Highlights and Final Products:** We could produce 4 NFTs illustrating philosophical thought experiments on Mintbase, with revenue and royalties split among the writer and the dao. 27.77 NEAR distributed to the each artist **NFTs:** > **[Winner 3 - the Philosophical Thought Experiment 4 - The Famous Violinist by...](https://www.mintbase.xyz/meta/philosophart.mintbase1.near%3Aad56fcaa0992590b14025a753141f1a7)** > > The experiment: > The thought experiment was originally proposed as follows: > You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney... > **[Winner 2 - the Philosophical Thought Experiment 4 - The Famous Violinist by...](https://www.mintbase.xyz/meta/philosophart.mintbase1.near%3A1c6321a09e532786c335e9676c3594a8)** > > The experiment: > The thought experiment was originally proposed as follows: > You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney... > **[Philosophical Thought Experiments Art (4ed) by philosophart.mintbase1.near on...](https://www.mintbase.xyz/meta/philosophart.mintbase1.near%3A13c1ea5c9607ff26c7bfd007e2a32a2e)** > > The experiment: > > The thought experiment was originally proposed as follows: > > You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney... > **[Winner 4 - the Philosophical Thought Experiment 4 - The Famous Violinist by...](https://www.mintbase.xyz/meta/philosophart.mintbase1.near%3Ae89ab3bbbc7deffdcae33dccc7c8759f)** > > The experiment: > The thought experiment was originally proposed as follows: > You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney... **Learnings:** The project was a success, with 54 replies, 1.1k views, 29 users, 215 likes. We could learn that we will only let available the possibility of request for payout up to a certain amount of time, for it not to disturb our reporting process. --- _[View the full topic](https://gov.near.org/t/proposal-philosophical-thought-experiments-art-fourth-edition/28217)._