Pith Number

pith:ZOC4QK76

pith:2015:ZOC4QK76QHUYSFF4JU2UZUOTAP

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The concept of free will as an infinite metatheoretic recursion

Hanaan Hashim, R. Srikanth

arxiv:1503.06485 v2 · 2015-03-22 · physics.hist-ph · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZOC4QK76QHUYSFF4JU2UZUOTAP}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:41:47.524816Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb85c82bfe81e98914bc4d354cd1d303ffa663f7389739e15197b582e982db4f

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.06485 · arxiv_version: 1503.06485v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.06485 · pith_short_12: ZOC4QK76QHUY · pith_short_16: ZOC4QK76QHUYSFF4 · pith_short_8: ZOC4QK76

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/ZOC4QK76QHUYSFF4JU2UZUOTAP \
  | 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: cb85c82bfe81e98914bc4d354cd1d303ffa663f7389739e15197b582e982db4f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "29dbd662039ed6ce8c66ef586c367dfe8b6d167e4bb23a64dd8af3efc8522a60",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-22T22:00:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e49302c7a7442ab1ba2ad9ba50a3bcbbb342ff1934bf26769e559c854173c5f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.06485",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}