Thanks, Rob, you've articulated just what I was thinking. The fact that
the work of art doesn't exist, but blockchain transactions to do with
the 'value' of the artwork do exist, is the point of the exercise to my
mind.
On the other hand, of course, Pall's correct. The blockchain record is
part of the artwork, even though the whole point of the artwork is that
the artwork itself doesn't exist. That's the paradox.
- Edward
On 31/10/17 18:02, Rob Myers wrote
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, at 08:13 PM, Pall Thayer via NetBehaviour wrote:
This is a great read. Now I want someone to explain to me how a
non-material (non-existent) work of art maintains its immateriality
(its non-existence) despite a record in the blockchain.
Immateriality and inexistence are different matters. :-)
Registering something in the blockchain doesn't anchor its being or
cause it to come into existence unless we agree it does or we have
some way of evaluating that existence -
http://robmyers.org/proof-of-existence/
For entities we are claiming exist outside of the blockchain, the data
that claims to register that existence is a proxy for them. We cannot
validate the correctness of that claim using the blockchain's
consensus rules in the same way we can for a simple value transaction
if we wish to validate the fact of the registered object's existence
outside of the blockchain. Something about being outside the text. We
can only validate that person X placed a record on the blockchain, and
possibly that later they sent it to person Y.
We use such proxies when buying and selling physical property such as
cars or houses, or more pertinently when buying and selling conceptual
art. Certificates of authenticity for conceptual art are even more
material than blockchain records. But I feel they are still proxies
for the work rather than being the work, although this may just be the
conceptual art fan in me speaking.
- Rob.
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