Pith Number

pith:TXG7XSRZ

pith:2020:TXG7XSRZVQJ4MCVVTEIC2OTBQF

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Formalizing Falsification for Theories of Consciousness Across Computational Hierarchies

Jake R. Hanson, Sara I. Walker

arxiv:2006.07390 v2 · 2020-06-12 · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT

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On the utility of toy models for theories of consciousness

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:05:30.818859Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9dcdfbca39ac13c60ab599102d3a61816a9b2ec94146ab70dc35bf3bc152b35d

Aliases

arxiv: 2006.07390 · arxiv_version: 2006.07390v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.07390 · pith_short_12: TXG7XSRZVQJ4 · pith_short_16: TXG7XSRZVQJ4MCVV · pith_short_8: TXG7XSRZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TXG7XSRZVQJ4MCVVTEIC2OTBQF \
  | 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: 9dcdfbca39ac13c60ab599102d3a61816a9b2ec94146ab70dc35bf3bc152b35d

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2020-06-12T18:05:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7ae3d49c9ccd829585ea3ce40bf929c4985af95077c40a30d12ae0f3fe1080b6"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}