Confabulation as adaptive sense-making

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• Confabulation as adaptive cognitive plasticityclaim0.878
• Confabulation: active modification and reinterpretation of memory data to preserve coherent self-model and narrativeconcept0.836
• Confabulation is not a distinguishing feature between AI and biological cognition — all cognitive systems confabulate, telling stories based on their world-model without infallible access to lower-level processes.claim0.826
  Directly challenges the use of confabulation as a wedge between AI and genuine cognition
• Confabulation is not a bug but a powerful and important feature arising from ancient origins, driving intelligence.claim0.822
  Revaluation of confabulation as adaptive.
• Confabulation is the natural mode for an LLM-based dialogue agent in the absence of mitigationclaim0.792
  Characterisation of LLM default behaviour as producing false information without intent
• Confabulationconcept0.791
  A form of cognitive plasticity where minds actively modify and reinterpret memory data to preserve psychological coherence; reframed as adaptive rather than pathological.
• What remains after ruling out sycophancy and confabulation are interpretations in which self-referential processing drives models to claim subjective experience in ways that either actually reflect emergent phenomenology or constitute sophisticated simulation thereofclaim0.781
  The paper's honest statement of the residual interpretive ambiguity after all controls
• Pattern completion and confabulation in anatomical spaceconcept0.767