Pith Number

pith:Q2LABU2F

pith:2002:Q2LABU2FVQO3CMVNFQUVTI3BO3

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Consciousness in Physics

Joe Henson

arxiv:physics/0203020 v2 · 2002-03-07 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q2LABU2FVQO3CMVNFQUVTI3BO3}

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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	2026-07-04T14:43:35.803075Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

869600d345ac1db132ad2c2959a36176d28c65d417b32d3c518d91440fedea8f

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0203020 · arxiv_version: physics/0203020v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0203020 · pith_short_12: Q2LABU2FVQO3 · pith_short_16: Q2LABU2FVQO3CMVN · pith_short_8: Q2LABU2F

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/Q2LABU2FVQO3CMVNFQUVTI3BO3 \
  | 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: 869600d345ac1db132ad2c2959a36176d28c65d417b32d3c518d91440fedea8f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "216eb34082873eea3c48a4802e15819f038cbbf568cc5191d1b22909b7df7ad3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-03-07T14:55:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7c69ef858d3cd8dcdfe94fa6f5132ad69de5cad285ccb50d45f86215efd76ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0203020",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}