Pith Number

pith:TCAUX5WI

pith:2026:TCAUX5WIUE74Z3NEIQOASDANJW

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The Rosetta Stone and Levels of Principled Inference to the Experience of Another Mind

Giulio Tononi, Kallum Robinson, Matteo Grasso, Naotsugu Tsuchiya

arxiv:2608.12030 v1 · 2026-08-12 · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TCAUX5WIUE74Z3NEIQOASDANJW}

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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	2026-08-13T01:29:17.589398Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

98814bf6c8a13fcceda4441c090c0d4db170e7379d07a9ab367936902817ed48

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12030 · arxiv_version: 2608.12030v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12030 · pith_short_12: TCAUX5WIUE74 · pith_short_16: TCAUX5WIUE74Z3NE · pith_short_8: TCAUX5WI

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/TCAUX5WIUE74Z3NEIQOASDANJW \
  | 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: 98814bf6c8a13fcceda4441c090c0d4db170e7379d07a9ab367936902817ed48

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4e2e0f8593c8f6ac3d015e0504bce096562aefecc206efe242e5d39f29d9169",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T13:09:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e08b27babc082dda05d315db9942dd810361fa8acc06a2c880fe0cae5aef2e53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12030",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}