Pith Number

pith:4CTXU3H3

pith:2025:4CTXU3H3PVQC4T2Y6HK54AQAHD

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Palatable Conceptions of Disembodied Being

Murray Shanahan

arxiv:2503.16348 v3 · 2025-03-20 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4CTXU3H3PVQC4T2Y6HK54AQAHD}

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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.

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2 papers in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:39:51.454124Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0a77a6cfb7d602e4f58f1d5de020038fe2a45957148b13ad1bdb853010d6784

Aliases

arxiv: 2503.16348 · arxiv_version: 2503.16348v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.16348 · pith_short_12: 4CTXU3H3PVQC · pith_short_16: 4CTXU3H3PVQC4T2Y · pith_short_8: 4CTXU3H3

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/4CTXU3H3PVQC4T2Y6HK54AQAHD \
  | 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: e0a77a6cfb7d602e4f58f1d5de020038fe2a45957148b13ad1bdb853010d6784

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b724e7fd302ea2169d5c144fc391d050f05b6c202081f6e50196b9b46a975026",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-20T17:05:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7eeb8f6c4a6ea384a69e004bf7b76da034f02ae2152de4020f395dead2c24a58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2503.16348",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}