> Without the ability to confabulate, he would have been unable to tell his story.
You can tell a story without making up fiction. Just say you don’t know when you don’t know.
Inaccurate information is worse than no information.
You can tell a story without making up fiction. Just say you don’t know when you don’t know.
Inaccurate information is worse than no information.
The point is that humans can't in general, because we don't actually know which parts of what we "remember" are real and which parts are our brain filling in the blanks. And maybe it's the same for nonhuman intelligences too.
Often we don’t quote people and instead provide a high level description of what they said, e.g. “Harry described the problems with his car.”, where detail is omitted.