Pith Number

pith:MR4W6JU5

pith:2017:MR4W6JU5P7MWWIGKOW3ZO2OKGZ

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How causal analysis can reveal autonomy in models of biological systems

Giulio Tononi, Hyunju Kim, Larissa Albantakis, Sara I. Walker, William Marshall

arxiv:1708.07880 v1 · 2017-08-25 · q-bio.QM

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\pithnumber{MR4W6JU5P7MWWIGKOW3ZO2OKGZ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:16.571537Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64796f269d7fd96b20ca75b79769ca364c8c34b1392dc16800a244d552cca477

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.07880 · arxiv_version: 1708.07880v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.07880 · pith_short_12: MR4W6JU5P7MW · pith_short_16: MR4W6JU5P7MWWIGK · pith_short_8: MR4W6JU5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MR4W6JU5P7MWWIGKOW3ZO2OKGZ \
  | 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: 64796f269d7fd96b20ca75b79769ca364c8c34b1392dc16800a244d552cca477

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-25T21:01:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "767903ce22b6bf7b6651283b33e1ec0ffff466d3ea551372d8bbb49b4a59ebe8"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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