Pith Number

pith:RI3NDGIN

pith:2024:RI3NDGINZEDTZYXERKN3NQIAC7

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Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to Large Language Models

David J. Chalmers

arxiv:2408.09605 v1 · 2024-08-18 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{RI3NDGINZEDTZYXERKN3NQIAC7}

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:56:34.521824Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a36d1990dc9073ce2e48a9bb6c10017cc00e49babdf555850242fd30f494176

Aliases

arxiv: 2408.09605 · arxiv_version: 2408.09605v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.09605 · pith_short_12: RI3NDGINZEDT · pith_short_16: RI3NDGINZEDTZYXE · pith_short_8: RI3NDGIN

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RI3NDGINZEDTZYXERKN3NQIAC7 \
  | 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: 8a36d1990dc9073ce2e48a9bb6c10017cc00e49babdf555850242fd30f494176

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b91fb3258e624e08129bc4778e59daa934fd73ddcc29b09766e71478cce0da7d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2024-08-18T22:18:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "98ee8218c87f317a7653b41285d90819c09b8a4e048846eed538b9177693c14c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2408.09605",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}