This paper argues that many so-called digital technologies can be construed as notational technologies, explored through the example of Monegraph, an art and digital asset management platform built on top of the blockchain system originally developed for the cryptocurrency bitcoin. As the paper characterizes it, a notational technology is the performance of syntactic notation within a field of reference, a technologized version of what Nelson Goodman called a “notational system.” Notational technologies produce abstracted entities through positive and reliable, or constitutive, tests of socially acceptable meaning. Accordingly, this account deviates from typical narratives of blockchains (usually characterized as Turing or state machines), instead demonstrating that blockchain technologies are effective at managing digital assets because they produce abstracted identities through the performance of notation. Since notational technologies rely on configurations of socially acceptable meaning, this paper also provides a philosophical account of how blockchain technologies are socially embedded.

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区块链身份：抽象实体控制和管理的符号技术

本文认为，许多所谓的数字技术可以解释为符号技术，通过 Monegraph 的例子进行探索，Monegraph 是一个艺术和数字资产管理平台，建立在最初为加密货币比特币开发的区块链系统之上。正如论文所描述的那样，符号技术是在参考领域内的句法符号的表现，尼尔森古德曼称之为“符号系统”的技术化版本。符号技术通过对社会可接受意义的积极和可靠的或构成性的测试来产生抽象的实体。因此，该帐户偏离了区块链的典型叙述（通常以图灵机或状态机为特征），而是证明区块链技术在管理数字资产方面是有效的，因为它们通过符号的表现产生抽象的身份。由于符号技术依赖于社会可接受意义的配置，本文还提供了区块链技术如何嵌入社会的哲学解释。