- People come up with an explanation for why they are doing/choosing/behaving a certain way, without really knowing why.
- A subconscious explanation for things when the reason is either unknown or non-existent.
- The narrator makes a completely fake reason to explain why they are doing, but the person doing it actually believes it.
- Why people do what they do, and why people think what they think.
- We all confabulate all the time. We don't have any direct access to why we do certain things.
- The brain wants to make sense of the world around us and feel in control of ourselves and our lives. And this just doesn't happen to the split-brain patients, it happens to everyone.
ALSO REFERENCED IN:
- Made You Think –– Homo Deus
- [[confabulation]], not knowing why but later explaining it rationally.
- Highlights from Homo Deus
- [[confabulation]], the left hemisphere of our brain is not only the seat of our verbal abilities, but also of an internal interpreter that constantly tries to make sense of our life, using partial clues in order to concoct plausible stories. There is no single self making any of these decisions, rather, they result from a tug of war between different often conflicting entities.