Pith Number

pith:SSKBL7AA

pith:2015:SSKBL7AABG6TEE3KO4CSZC6JVF

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A Minimal Architecture for General Cognition

Michael R. Smith, Michael S. Gashler, Zachariah Kindle

arxiv:1508.00019 v1 · 2015-07-31 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SSKBL7AABG6TEE3KO4CSZC6JVF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:59.332049Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

949415fc0009bd32136a77052c8bc9a97210b1eaec512d757c026b5867fecf3d

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.00019 · arxiv_version: 1508.00019v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.00019 · pith_short_12: SSKBL7AABG6T · pith_short_16: SSKBL7AABG6TEE3K · pith_short_8: SSKBL7AA

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/SSKBL7AABG6TEE3KO4CSZC6JVF \
  | 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: 949415fc0009bd32136a77052c8bc9a97210b1eaec512d757c026b5867fecf3d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ab5052c7b7023c9f8ea276cd896abc0db6ffd726c95849b255b01a584903f60f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-31T20:21:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad2771f957c9bd8870c69906b386350e604d19de51c65a046cbd55c10780a098"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.00019",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}