Well, it's safe to say that I need to work on getting people to joinin with things like my philosophy contest. Maybe people were distracted by the death of Stephen Hawking. And maybe the fact that the SBD prize-money I offered was worth much less by the end of the week than the start of it didn't help either.
Anyway, the results are in, and the winner, in basically every category, was 
Hive account@psilocybit with his stream-of consciousness style take on what properties, namely consciousness itself, are emergent from certain kinds of networks:
https://steemit.com/newbieresteemday/@psilocybit/it-s-artist-endeavour-to-bring-that-which-is-in-the-realms-of-the-mind-navigators-psychonauts
So 
Hive account@psylocybit gets 1.5 SBD for winning the popular vote (not hard considering that no one else managed to technically enter), plus 0.5 SBD as the contest post did quite well, plus at least one share in the 
Hive account@steembasicincome scheme (if he wants it - I'm not forcing anyone).
Honourable mentions should also go to 
Hive account@solarbear for a short comment on the use of natural law, and how things would be much easier of people could just follow the principles of doing no harm and respecting each other's autonomy.
Last, not certainly not least, 
Hive account@cnacws, for engaging me in philosophical discussion in the comments, and doing so in a calm and measured manner, despite my slightly unfair hectoring of how he made his case (btw, that conversation isn't over 😃).
Even though it's not strictly in line with the original rules, I'm awarding these two 0.5 SBD each for being such good sports, and giving their brains (and mine) a workout. The offer of sponsorship into the Hive account@steembasicincome extends to them as well.
Thanks to everyone who voted, upvoted, resteemed etc.
I have to think further on how Steemit can be leveraged to get more visibility and interation for philosophical posts. I had to stop 
Hive account@ginabot from sending me DM every time someone said 'philosophy' as I was getting hundreds of notifications a day. So people are thinking about this stuff, and posting about it on Steemit, but I'm not sure they are really connecting with each other. If you have any ideas in that regard, feel free to corner me in discord for a discussion.
Thanks for reading.
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