Pith Number

pith:R2S7E3IL

pith:2016:R2S7E3IL7L3DIOYQTEXEFZQJHH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Black-boxing and cause-effect power

Giulio Tononi, Larissa Albantakis, William Marshall

arxiv:1608.03461 v2 · 2016-08-07 · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R2S7E3IL7L3DIOYQTEXEFZQJHH}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-17T23:46:22.242871Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ea5f26d0bfaf6343b10992e42e60939ff12e557917b9811113315e0a3f0a911

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.03461 · arxiv_version: 1608.03461v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.03461 · pith_short_12: R2S7E3IL7L3D · pith_short_16: R2S7E3IL7L3DIOYQ · pith_short_8: R2S7E3IL

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/R2S7E3IL7L3DIOYQTEXEFZQJHH \
  | 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: 8ea5f26d0bfaf6343b10992e42e60939ff12e557917b9811113315e0a3f0a911

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0008dd4f6c4706768463ff9380db94860a7db285b72c3e36d70245cdf50e557b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-07T22:07:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b03c7b3ccb35eaecb5b46658de3ffbbde1fb9dff83b34572b2fcadfdd055d3dd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.03461",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}