I think it’s helpful to look at our value of originality as an example of lost purposes. Historically humans used to be in an environment where it is very difficult to get a copy of an object with all the properties that we actually care for. So caring about object being specifically themselves rather than some other example from the same class was a valid heuristic for lots of our values. It’s much less so today, but we’ve already developped this adaptation, biologicaly and/or culturaly. Actual economical value of art pieces was originally derived from the fact that it’s hard to (re)produce them, now however, we just keep valueing originals, mostly because other people do and everybody agree that they cost a lot of money. It’s a multipolar trap.
With that in mind, NFTs are a lost purpose of a lost purpose. They are an artificial attempt to create scarcity in the environment where no scarcity naturally arises, therefore there is no reason to care about originalness in the first place. Moreover, people are not even caught into this multipolar trap. We do not generally agree that some specific NFT gives some kind of meaningful ownership over an object. We do not recognise it, neither legally nor socially.
I think it’s helpful to look at our value of originality as an example of lost purposes. Historically humans used to be in an environment where it is very difficult to get a copy of an object with all the properties that we actually care for. So caring about object being specifically themselves rather than some other example from the same class was a valid heuristic for lots of our values. It’s much less so today, but we’ve already developped this adaptation, biologicaly and/or culturaly. Actual economical value of art pieces was originally derived from the fact that it’s hard to (re)produce them, now however, we just keep valueing originals, mostly because other people do and everybody agree that they cost a lot of money. It’s a multipolar trap.
With that in mind, NFTs are a lost purpose of a lost purpose. They are an artificial attempt to create scarcity in the environment where no scarcity naturally arises, therefore there is no reason to care about originalness in the first place. Moreover, people are not even caught into this multipolar trap. We do not generally agree that some specific NFT gives some kind of meaningful ownership over an object. We do not recognise it, neither legally nor socially.