Pith Number

pith:NQ4HEM3Z

pith:2014:NQ4HEM3ZXSHNT4G7AC7SWMQJT5

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Consciousness as a State of Matter

Max Tegmark (MIT)

arxiv:1401.1219 v3 · 2014-01-06 · quant-ph · cond-mat.dis-nn · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NQ4HEM3ZXSHNT4G7AC7SWMQJT5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:30.535119Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c38723379bc8ed9f0df00bf2b32099f439f37b042e624d4d2c60590ab717ff5

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.1219 · arxiv_version: 1401.1219v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.1219 · pith_short_12: NQ4HEM3ZXSHN · pith_short_16: NQ4HEM3ZXSHNT4G7 · pith_short_8: NQ4HEM3Z

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/NQ4HEM3ZXSHNT4G7AC7SWMQJT5 \
  | 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: 6c38723379bc8ed9f0df00bf2b32099f439f37b042e624d4d2c60590ab717ff5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c8704dff362e903715520480379b2ce5df6782d4948ccd593af04b087ff51daf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.dis-nn",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-06T21:00:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10ff237d6e7fd17aeeb011edce4ace171f74e63d0df561f1428be4579af5643e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.1219",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}