Pith Number

pith:3PE7FYR5

pith:2007:3PE7FYR5L2SHF4NICMQDPZSU2U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Top-Down Causation by Information Control: From a Philosophical Problem to a Scientific Research Program

G. Auletta, G. F. R. Ellis, L. Jaeger

arxiv:0710.4235 v2 · 2007-10-23 · q-bio.OT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3PE7FYR5L2SHF4NICMQDPZSU2U}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:09:13.971268Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dbc9f2e23d5ea472f1a8132037e654d51ddc69f84258de8e02cd490c27a5df7f

Aliases

arxiv: 0710.4235 · arxiv_version: 0710.4235v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0710.4235 · pith_short_12: 3PE7FYR5L2SH · pith_short_16: 3PE7FYR5L2SHF4NI · pith_short_8: 3PE7FYR5

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/3PE7FYR5L2SHF4NICMQDPZSU2U \
  | 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: dbc9f2e23d5ea472f1a8132037e654d51ddc69f84258de8e02cd490c27a5df7f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc275842aaab6c19403a8a70f516a7b2d6a6d8c3961fc9795323e99fd1da60a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2007-10-23T10:59:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2658ebee9f146d05a28dc0cc544181f860506ee0df80f6485bbeca812bd844f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0710.4235",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}