Yet memory is fallible. A Google search of the ME brings up the Wikipedia entry for false memories and confabulation.<sup>66</sup> What is confabulation and why has the ME been hyperlinked to this Wikipedia article? William Hirstein publish…———. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Hirstein, William. Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT …
William Hirstein
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William Hirstein is a cognitive neuroscientist known for his work on confabulation and self-deception, particularly in his 2005 monograph *Brain Fiction*. The course readings invoke his framework to explain how memory systems—especially in the context of AI and collective digital experience—produce false narratives and distorted recollections, linking confabulation to the broader problem of how systems (neural and technological) construct coherent but unreliable accounts of reality. His work appears as a key reference for understanding the gap between actual information states and the stories we tell about them, a concern central to how AI systems generate plausible-sounding but potentially fabricated outputs.
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