Pith Number

pith:3YBBG7DR

pith:2018:3YBBG7DRRICUAJOZ2N52MTA56T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Measuring the Complexity of Consciousness

Paul Verschure, Xerxes D. Arsiwalla

arxiv:1801.03880 v1 · 2018-01-11 · q-bio.NC · physics.bio-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3YBBG7DRRICUAJOZ2N52MTA56T}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:13.303463Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de02137c718a054025d9d37ba64c1df4e805022a43a99dff05bb176518627326

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.03880 · arxiv_version: 1801.03880v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.03880 · pith_short_12: 3YBBG7DRRICU · pith_short_16: 3YBBG7DRRICUAJOZ · pith_short_8: 3YBBG7DR

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/3YBBG7DRRICUAJOZ2N52MTA56T \
  | 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: de02137c718a054025d9d37ba64c1df4e805022a43a99dff05bb176518627326

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1af3c033c508e5c0010fae80e978b2c502802fbf2e9b35730235d2ffa0b7ca76",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-11T17:18:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e4fba7b8cf9c468091c5c67e8ecf952e6d5a8426999caab7bc8677da682cfc5d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.03880",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}