Pith Number

pith:WPSGUSQF

pith:2026:WPSGUSQF3T27W4CTZ4YR6RI4RK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bootstrapping Life-Inspired Machine Intelligence: The Biological Route from Chemistry to Cognition and Creativity

Giovanni Pezzulo, Michael Levin

arxiv:2602.08079 v2 · 2026-02-08 · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WPSGUSQF3T27W4CTZ4YR6RI4RK}

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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	2026-05-26T02:04:05.545470Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b3e46a4a05dcf5fb7053cf311f451c8aaa73df218018f7174447a09ae679b1f5

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.08079 · arxiv_version: 2602.08079v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.08079 · pith_short_12: WPSGUSQF3T27 · pith_short_16: WPSGUSQF3T27W4CT · pith_short_8: WPSGUSQF

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/WPSGUSQF3T27W4CTZ4YR6RI4RK \
  | 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: b3e46a4a05dcf5fb7053cf311f451c8aaa73df218018f7174447a09ae679b1f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eab620f939d79dc8f84a2e262e0638aa242652efccc3a9df6258f258fa4f2b24",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-08T18:48:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7bb0da5d38accc94e269abd41d327d0b8328fd23cbfc28d322d2c2f0c9e82241"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.08079",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}