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Angela DiGioia's picture

I'm Confabbed...

Is confabulation a construct of memory or vice versa?  It seems like even someone's memory is confabulated since it is a "'constructed understandings of a constructed person's constructed point of view'... experiences and memories are not linear but something we repeatedly mull over and allow to evolve."  I am comfortable with the fact that our memories are a construct of our interpretations of experiences and inputs that we constantly experience and that there is not absolute truth, but it seems to me that confabulation is a more technical term for the interactions between our imaginations and memories that did not necessarily happen in reality.  Does that seem to make sense?

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