If you don’t know how to explain something, why not just make it all up? Welcome to another important feature of the left hemisphere’s world: confabulation.

Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things, describing the left hemisphere when the right hemisphere is impaired or disabled.

Sounds a lot like AI, doesn’t it? McGilchrist has done wonders disenthralling me of AI techno-utopianism.

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