[PROPOSAL] Philosophical Thought Experiments Art (Second Edition)

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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 integrate The Philosophers DAO more deeply with the community of creative artists on NEAR and to spread The Philosophers DAO’s Community; (4) to produce art NFTs and transactions on the blockchain; (5) to bring university professors to the ecosystem, who could be the next collectors when they understand well how web 3 works…

the project

The project is to give an acquisition prize of 100 usd in near or dai for each of the 4 best pieces of art produced by the community in our bounty. The pieces of art must not be minted, because they are going to be minted by us, with the due credits, in our store and with royalties and revenue splitted equally between the artist and The Philosophers DAO; they must come with a cover image (an associated image - if the art is an image, it can be itself) they can be pictures, including memes, videos, poetry, 3d objects, gifs, and should express the following thought experiment:

Thought experiment: The Veil of Ignorance

This famous thought experiment was built by the American philosopher John Rawls to explore some ideas about the concept of justice, exposed in detail in his book A Theory of Justice (1971).

Imagine that you and a group of people need to decide on the principles that will establish a new society. However, none of these people know what their situation would be in that society. Elements such as their race, income level, sex, gender, religion, for example, are unknown to all individuals. After deciding which principles should govern this new society, everyone should follow those principles and accept the benefits and consequences of their choices.

The big questions are: What would that society be like? Which principles would be chosen? How does this reflection affect our perception of current reality?

Consultant: RAWLS, J. A Theory of Justice (1971).

timeline

week 1: to launch the bounty and publicize it.

week 2: to publicize the bounty.

week 3: to choose 4 winners, to mint the NFTs.

week 4: report and accountability.

budget

4 winners (best art chosen by council) x 100USD (100 USD in NEAR or DAI, whichever is more convenient for the DAO, and NEAR value will be measured according to the exchange rate used by NEAR to pay the DAO)

Subtotal: 400USD

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I/we (radioevrazia) can still participate?

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Yes, you can. But this is the project for the funding proposal. Let me get you the link for the bounty.

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Project Report

Status: Completed

Project:

Bounty generated by the project:

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 (50 copies each, but 10 copies sent to the artist and 40 listed for 2.5 near) from the chosen art, with royalties and revenues splitted between the artists and the dao. Each artist received 100 usd in near.

Payout to the winners (4 members of the community receiving 100 usd in dai each):

@eyesore.near https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-103

@Jamilaa.near https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-112

@Boldest https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-110

@Nosana https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-116

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 2.5 near each, with 50 copies each, in order to have products that could gives us back the spent resources. 40 listed for 2.5 near, and 10 sent to the author, with revenue and royalties split among the artist and the dao.

400 DAI distributed to the community.

Extra resource spent: 8 near sent to open storage on Philosophart Mintbase Store (aditional expend): NEAR Explorer | Transaction
Astro transfer to thephilosopher: https://app.astrodao.com/dao/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/the-philosophers-dao.sputnik-dao.near-109

Learnings:

The project was a success. Many people participated, and some artists developed a large description talking about the thought experiment, and thus thinking about philosophy. Next month we will make that all descriptions should be considered in the voting process too. 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. We have now 115 people.

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Dear friends and especially the organizer of this contest. I forgot to thank you all for pushing us through the process of rethinking experience and conventional attitudes. As we have sailed away from the shore of conventional definitions, we see nothing but the open ocean before us.

We actually had our art object ready to participate, but it referred to interpreting the older arcana of the Tarot, so we started double-checking again and again, read Plato, and then watched Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature and realized that everything we had written before was useless. So we started all over again. And so we did it a few more times. But in the process, we were able to solve some personal problems, although new ones took their place.

In any case, maybe we’ll do it again.
Thank you

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