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Counterfactual Imaginative Culture as Evidence Hallucination in Support of Entropy Reduction

2025-01-02

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Why do human beings invest work in creating representations of objects and situations that do not exist, cannot be proven to exist, or exist by cultural convention? This study explains this phenomenon by identifying counterfactual cultural production as a form of evidence hallucination, where anxiety-reducing cultural and cognitive models are made to be `true’ by flooding the perceptual environment with fabricated...

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Literature Corpus work: 6e07e08a-4157-57f0-b914-3375c36b6de4
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202412.2459.v1

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