Pattern completion and confabulation in anatomical space

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• willingness to confabulate in anatomical spaceconcept0.811
  Proposed parameter on a spectrum of morphogenetic plasticity, akin to r vs. K selection.
• Pattern completionconcept0.784
  The ability of a network to regenerate a full pattern from partial input, seen in neural networks and in regenerative biology (e.g., planarian fragments).
• Confabulation: active modification and reinterpretation of memory data to preserve coherent self-model and narrativeconcept0.779
• 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.claim0.777
  Directly challenges the use of confabulation as a wedge between AI and genuine cognition
• Confabulation as adaptive sense-makingclaim0.767
  Levin reframes confabulation—often pejorative—as a fundamental biological strategy for extracting actionable wisdom from incomplete or contradictory information.
• Commissurotomy (Split-Brain) Confabulationfinding0.756
  Split-brain patients whose left hand performs unexpected movements generate narrative explanations to preserve self-model; demonstrates active memory reinterpretation.
• predictive processing (pattern completion)concept0.756
  Cognitive framework where top-down predictions shape perception and action.
• Confabulationconcept0.756
  A form of cognitive plasticity where minds actively modify and reinterpret memory data to preserve psychological coherence; reframed as adaptive rather than pathological.