Hallucination Is Generative Memory With Its Verifier Turned Down: One Constraint Axis Links Dreaming Sleep and LLM Confabulation
arXiv (Cornell University) September 5, 2026 Carson Rodrigues preprint
Dreaming and large language model hallucination are usually studied apart, one as biology and the other as engineering. We argue they are two expressions of a single computation: generative reconstruction from distributed memory under incomplete constraints. Neither the sleeping brain nor an autoregressive model retrieves stored records; both synthesize output by recombining learned...