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by mdp2021 1063 days ago
> "Confabulation"

And why would that be? "Hallucination" means "erratic wandering", implying one is lost - similarly to "delirium" (maetaphor using the plough) and "error". Part of the idea is that of "instead of witnessing the correct, reporting the false" - a very ancient, traditional idea, and akin to the concept of "intelligence" (intus-legere).

"Confabulation" means locutor and interlocutor are talking, exchanging narrations.
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codetrotter 1063 days ago
> In psychology, confabulation is a memory error defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world. It is generally associated with certain types of brain damage (especially aneurysm in the anterior communicating artery) or a specific subset of dementias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation

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mdp2021 1063 days ago
Interesting, I will check that more analytically as soon as I will be back at the console,

but I am not sure - provisionally - that it can be a good idea to relate strictly human neurology to ANNs, if based on phenomena as opposed to structural issues. You do not have that problem when staying with natural language.

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