Andrew Huberman· PhD
We confabulate from birth until death.
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We confabulate from birth until death.
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we know that the memory system is a confabulation system correct a good example of this would be people who sadly have some form of dementia they often will find themselves in a room doing something and if you ask them hey what were you doing they don't say I don't know they say oh you know I came in here to do something and they create these elaborate stories of what got them there which may make sense to them might not
but we all do this we all confabulate false memories there is a huge topic into itself but um we all confabulate memory is not perfect