Pith Number

pith:5BIXWMEU

pith:2017:5BIXWMEU4FJNWK6Y4F4HXMTYTY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sentient Self-Organization: Minimal dynamics and circular causality

Biswa Sengupta, Karl Friston

arxiv:1705.08265 v1 · 2017-05-18 · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5BIXWMEU4FJNWK6Y4F4HXMTYTY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:48.862707Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8517b3094e152db2bd8e1787bb2789e2ad8522e0e6fbc5221acf8505fb9425e

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08265 · arxiv_version: 1705.08265v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08265 · pith_short_12: 5BIXWMEU4FJN · pith_short_16: 5BIXWMEU4FJNWK6Y · pith_short_8: 5BIXWMEU

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/5BIXWMEU4FJNWK6Y4F4HXMTYTY \
  | 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: e8517b3094e152db2bd8e1787bb2789e2ad8522e0e6fbc5221acf8505fb9425e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a430256aba485d3aa5edffd8f67fab26f1957792eb2c4e1f02b6ad77f347bb5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-18T14:04:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3eb2424bba1a089498c1206db76950ed5e08a6db7b526f9f00e76e10956adaa8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08265",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}