confabulation

Is confabulation about topics subject to factual review a habit for you?

However, since I can't grep my collection I can't prove if that's actually something Heinlein said, or a confabulation on my part.

Bring it up and you will likely be treated to an expert display of confabulation and rationalization.

Since "confabulation" is our only option, Hayek warns against disguising it as science -- this is what happens in economics, he says.

I wonder if the confabulation is part of the defense mechanism that people are using to keep from facing a truth that is at once more mundane and more horrifying.

"Not just because the police have a special inclination toward confabulation, but because, disturbingly, they have an incentive to lie.

My feeling is that too strict an insistence on slavishly faithful accuracy can be as much a liability as confabulation.

[1] As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, or other effects of perception.

If anything, I predict a different sort of confabulation: that we have managed come up with a scientific theory to something that is provably impenetrable to hard scientific quantitative theory.

It reminds me of studies in confabulation in split-brains:>> Some of the most famous examples of confabulation come "split-brain" patients, whose left and right brain hemispheres have been surgically disconnected for medical treatment.