Pith Number

pith:4MSQLMHD

pith:2020:4MSQLMHDKDJ5W4FSP3S2QSG3H5

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A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness

Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum

arxiv:2011.09850 v4 · 2020-11-18 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{4MSQLMHDKDJ5W4FSP3S2QSG3H5}

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4 Citations open

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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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Consciousness as a Functor

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T03:08:06.227236Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e32505b0e350d3db70b27ee5a848db3f71b3265a91c2603ac2caf433a09c7496

Aliases

arxiv: 2011.09850 · arxiv_version: 2011.09850v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.09850 · pith_short_12: 4MSQLMHDKDJ5 · pith_short_16: 4MSQLMHDKDJ5W4FS · pith_short_8: 4MSQLMHD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4MSQLMHDKDJ5W4FSP3S2QSG3H5 \
  | 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: e32505b0e350d3db70b27ee5a848db3f71b3265a91c2603ac2caf433a09c7496

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8eed092edae525f4884febad058a9c18dc8178ed3490801efe7717689e5f50f0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2020-11-18T11:28:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "081eba48ee4ce954b734d1ec98705249fa080067403cbb5f7f491704a75b8275"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2011.09850",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}