Pith Number

pith:HVEOG46E

pith:2014:HVEOG46E4L2MHZFSBUKJURDP7G

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Why Blind-Variation Selective-Retention is an Inappropriate Explanatory Framework for Creativity

Liane Gabora

arxiv:1409.2210 v2 · 2014-09-08 · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HVEOG46E4L2MHZFSBUKJURDP7G}

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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	2026-05-17T23:40:37.040513Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d48e373c4e2f4c3e4b20d149a446ff98ce2fa1507f3fe64d8894868ed7af17b

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.2210 · arxiv_version: 1409.2210v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.2210 · pith_short_12: HVEOG46E4L2M · pith_short_16: HVEOG46E4L2MHZFS · pith_short_8: HVEOG46E

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/HVEOG46E4L2MHZFSBUKJURDP7G \
  | 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: 3d48e373c4e2f4c3e4b20d149a446ff98ce2fa1507f3fe64d8894868ed7af17b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "531d344b9968318314758f628c4a30f7e2b263ff1ddfde5de8a80e20713f6fcc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-08T05:39:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f55cdc47f9ee70789fc452cb9f0bbd2473314171aaf2533464c16926eb83b662"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.2210",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}