Pith Number

pith:E4CU56QP

pith:2026:E4CU56QP25KVF2UVFGRO5KIGBW

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The Tao of Agency: Autotelic AI, Embedded Agency and Dissolution of the Self

Aritra Sarkar

arxiv:2606.19924 v1 · 2026-06-18 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E4CU56QP25KVF2UVFGRO5KIGBW}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-19T16:12:38.819144Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

27054efa0fd75552ea9529a2eea9060db90f1a7662d763eab9711716e3b02dc3

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.19924 · arxiv_version: 2606.19924v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.19924 · pith_short_12: E4CU56QP25KV · pith_short_16: E4CU56QP25KVF2UV · pith_short_8: E4CU56QP

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/E4CU56QP25KVF2UVFGRO5KIGBW \
  | 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: 27054efa0fd75552ea9529a2eea9060db90f1a7662d763eab9711716e3b02dc3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f6ec2ebc670ee67c8d2b3c870a5dee5371e3d2a3d459c9c8ded802386341312",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-18T08:20:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc547ac59f20cdda7c854f400affbcaf0079dc1719cc3587456ec4ac7e02c08e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.19924",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}