Pith Number

pith:NBVEYFRN

pith:2025:NBVEYFRNLR2DIYGOUA6VB3XIYY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The assumptions that restrain us from understanding consciousness

Jaan Aru

arxiv:2506.21485 v1 · 2025-06-26 · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NBVEYFRNLR2DIYGOUA6VB3XIYY}

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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	2026-07-05T11:27:46.770976Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

686a4c162d5c743460cea03d50eee8c6155cf215841933c9216a5782dd9d819a

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.21485 · arxiv_version: 2506.21485v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.21485 · pith_short_12: NBVEYFRNLR2D · pith_short_16: NBVEYFRNLR2DIYGO · pith_short_8: NBVEYFRN

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/NBVEYFRNLR2DIYGOUA6VB3XIYY \
  | 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: 686a4c162d5c743460cea03d50eee8c6155cf215841933c9216a5782dd9d819a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3cfd22a55d4b92780ca6d8e4b2a5243ab71230101f9acec9b5588b2fedc8a5dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-26T17:14:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c68dc0605dc3dbf6bfa5b22e99db51bc74045d1227aafd1a08c13eeae553e2f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.21485",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}