Pith Number

pith:WTE34X4V

pith:2011:WTE34X4VSSDONANNTHYXOYPLAI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How Insight Emerges in a Distributed, Content-addressable Memory

Apara Ranjan, Liane Gabora

arxiv:1106.3600 v3 · 2011-06-18 · q-bio.NC · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WTE34X4VSSDONANNTHYXOYPLAI}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-17T23:41:22.505828Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4c9be5f959486e681ad99f17761eb0230888c6689ad38ee920cbbb077c3d909

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.3600 · arxiv_version: 1106.3600v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.3600 · pith_short_12: WTE34X4VSSDO · pith_short_16: WTE34X4VSSDONANN · pith_short_8: WTE34X4V

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/WTE34X4VSSDONANNTHYXOYPLAI \
  | 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: b4c9be5f959486e681ad99f17761eb0230888c6689ad38ee920cbbb077c3d909

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30b430f2ddf15eef2726b1d311dd4e46bb20310df9084b96683cfa82ea58b933",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-18T00:26:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca73c79eed7982f57f3758de6fab9ecde02863caa5bb9759229c587ae8a27232"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.3600",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}