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by codetrotter 1066 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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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.