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concept:split-brain-patients-confabulationsplit-brain patients confabulation
Left hand actions explained by language center making up stories, classic confabulation example.
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- Split-brain patients whose left hand performs unexpected movements generate narrative explanations to preserve self-model; demonstrates active memory reinterpretation.
- A form of cognitive plasticity where minds actively modify and reinterpret memory data to preserve psychological coherence; reframed as adaptive rather than pathological.
- Proposed parameter on a spectrum of morphogenetic plasticity, akin to r vs. K selection.
- Cited as empirical evidence that confabulation is universal in biological cognition, not AI-specific
- Directly challenges the use of confabulation as a wedge between AI and genuine cognition
- Revaluation of confabulation as adaptive.