Pith Number

pith:CJC3A4WA

pith:2023:CJC3A4WAA7S5IK6M57NPT3GD6Z

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Mortal Computation: A Foundation for Biomimetic Intelligence

Alexander Ororbia, Karl Friston

arxiv:2311.09589 v2 · 2023-11-16 · q-bio.NC

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\pithnumber{CJC3A4WAA7S5IK6M57NPT3GD6Z}

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First computed	2026-07-05T07:40:59.757253Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1245b072c007e5d42bccefdaf9ecc3f6415fa1a934722055d0f4bd7956d32fb6

Aliases

arxiv: 2311.09589 · arxiv_version: 2311.09589v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.09589 · pith_short_12: CJC3A4WAA7S5 · pith_short_16: CJC3A4WAA7S5IK6M · pith_short_8: CJC3A4WA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CJC3A4WAA7S5IK6M57NPT3GD6Z \
  | 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: 1245b072c007e5d42bccefdaf9ecc3f6415fa1a934722055d0f4bd7956d32fb6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eff83957fd5f7e20e1ad7d8f8734db146ff45f236f35a15cfdc9ae789d7eb1d7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2023-11-16T06:00:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "537aa26c058dcf39dd4b281fd970acb9098f7ed6ad270583689ecdc1ede8e412"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2311.09589",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}