Pith Number

pith:4H5G44NX

pith:2025:4H5G44NXPAFOZ5VGFTQGW5G7IR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Wanting to Be Understood Explains the Meta-Problem of Consciousness

Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Simon Osindero

arxiv:2506.12086 v1 · 2025-06-10 · q-bio.NC · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4H5G44NXPAFOZ5VGFTQGW5G7IR}

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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	2026-07-05T11:21:16.823478Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e1fa6e71b7780aecf6a62ce06b74df4458869bd6e58fa0836bad311f35cf44e2

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.12086 · arxiv_version: 2506.12086v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.12086 · pith_short_12: 4H5G44NXPAFO · pith_short_16: 4H5G44NXPAFOZ5VG · pith_short_8: 4H5G44NX

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/4H5G44NXPAFOZ5VGFTQGW5G7IR \
  | 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: e1fa6e71b7780aecf6a62ce06b74df4458869bd6e58fa0836bad311f35cf44e2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "03501e3fa118b96e3c210fb95664466c332e5fda363a13e3bd1d94d15e1188b3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-10T12:31:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8640d5b0a5cdc7d8bcab2da73754b4c20097af00cae3253328ae79eaffbefa34"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.12086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}