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Only if the "mistake" wasn't afterward incorporated into the improvisation does it become an actual mistake.

“If you play a bum note, play it a couple more times and it sounds like you meant it” Eric Clapton, I think.

there lots of ways to recover, and varying degrees of mistakes, sure.

but after "recovering", what would have been a mistake is no longer a mistake.

sure, some of the best shit happens when recovering.

With skill, yes. But if you're at my level as an improviser, it's possible to play notes that sound like mistakes, followed by additional notes that don't sound like recovering. ;-) Sometimes, the whole passage just sounds like it didn't work, or that I was lost, which I probably was.

There are also chord changes that are too complex for me to interpret in real time.

Adding to my woes, between any two wrong notes, there are infinitely many wrong notes on my instrument.

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