Pith Number

pith:BRGCFXPF

pith:2024:BRGCFXPF44UDELQ2BOKJDLMQZ4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Simulacra as Conscious Exotica

Murray Shanahan

arxiv:2402.12422 v2 · 2024-02-19 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BRGCFXPF44UDELQ2BOKJDLMQZ4}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T08:42:33.130947Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c4c22dde5e728322e1a0b9491ad90cf0776756c28aeec6a640c65a00f1c755d

Aliases

arxiv: 2402.12422 · arxiv_version: 2402.12422v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2402.12422 · pith_short_12: BRGCFXPF44UD · pith_short_16: BRGCFXPF44UDELQ2 · pith_short_8: BRGCFXPF

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/BRGCFXPF44UDELQ2BOKJDLMQZ4 \
  | 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: 0c4c22dde5e728322e1a0b9491ad90cf0776756c28aeec6a640c65a00f1c755d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "02230db654450a5d7f44d71a7fd47b9bca0e070dfdd06d8e6dcad5f57b3cec01",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2024-02-19T13:53:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0b7150b5b0716363df3ca97f8416174b7a9f8a8d4f7e0ab7d2528932479e0db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2402.12422",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}