Pith Number

pith:B67LZPJQ

pith:2017:B67LZPJQ5RVQ7XM5H44LAFFRSE

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A Tale of Two Animats: What does it take to have goals?

Larissa Albantakis

arxiv:1705.10854 v1 · 2017-05-30 · q-bio.NC · cs.NE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B67LZPJQ5RVQ7XM5H44LAFFRSE}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:43:20.060178Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0fbebcbd30ec6b0fdd9d3f38b014b19104f5fd81ac889118917d877752b5b903

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.10854 · arxiv_version: 1705.10854v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.10854 · pith_short_12: B67LZPJQ5RVQ · pith_short_16: B67LZPJQ5RVQ7XM5 · pith_short_8: B67LZPJQ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B67LZPJQ5RVQ7XM5H44LAFFRSE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 0fbebcbd30ec6b0fdd9d3f38b014b19104f5fd81ac889118917d877752b5b903

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5096440976d847d63a3b264b693396ee348546bbf781502d913636756b7e8320",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-30T20:19:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "14c0261dae4b679803bd8f5b6631dfc9698191e788e7367153a06a1ac5ec7ed2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.10854",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}