It has been a bumpy ride lately! I had an attacker break into my Chrome profile and steal a bunch of browser cookies, causing years of neglected opsec to suddenly become my top priority. OpenSea has inexplicably been banning the Worldview Ethics series NFTs for vague violations of their ToS (hint: it isn't in violation!), which has caused setbacks with the project, and I've recently taken up a day job working at a country club on the grounds crew.

Overall, things are great! There is almost never a dull moment, though I do get enough of those to sleep through.

Today the biggest highlight is that Andrew Nocker, founder and team leader at Quest of Evolution, has managed to innovate his way around the hurdles placed before our project here by OpenSea in not allowing the NFT assets to be listed. The second token of the series is called "Toward a Metabolic Theory of Consciousness" and the essay is available to read or contribute to via the Quest of Evolution website here:

Worldview Ethics

infinite auction: 1ST MAY 2023 Chain: POLYGON Architects Description Enter the first knowledge base hypergraph, to be constructed around Worldview Ethics, a primary source philosophy text by T. Dylan Daniel, author of Formal Dialectics. This Crypto-Novel will represent an experiment in scientific discourse, with an auction mechanic governing the community's ability to add to the essay, creating an entirely new work.

https://www.thequestofevolution.com

Note the soundtrack! I am indebted to the QoE team for their ingenuity and creativity in bringing these musical accompaniments to the project. I am looking forward with great anticipation to continuing to work with Andrew and all the rest as we move forward with the project here.

Details

The plan is simple: list the asset at 500 $MATIC, with a duration of seven days and NO RESERVE. This means that ANY BID could potentially win, or someone, if they like, may swoop in and pick it up for the full asking price.

The inspiration for this mechanism was twofold: eBay used to offer a Buy-It-Now price feature that paired nicely with offers made by users, and the Rarible marketplace enables offers to be made on items listed for sale.

If you're a fan of what you're seeing with these essays and you'd like to contribute (shoutout to OddWritings for being the first!) then you can find the new NFT at Rarible:

Toward A Metabolic Theory Of Consciousness The Cognitive Science Revolution

Discover, sell and buy NFTs on Rarible! Whether it's Ethereum NFTs, Solana NFTs or Tezos NFTs, get them on Web3's first aggregated NFT marketplace

https://rarible.com

The project continues as soon as this auction is finalized with Essay #3, so be sure to stay tuned! Something tells me things are heating up in Web3 again, at last.


Cheers,

D