confabulate

• This is especially obvious in split-brain research, when the left hemisphere's "interpreter" finds itself sequestered, and can be enticed to simply confabulate by way of accounting for right-hemisphere behavior. —  Integral Options Cafe
• PARING-TIME ANTICIPATED I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no; 'Tis clear that they were always able To hold discourse, at least in fable; And e'en the child who knows no better Than to interpret, by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must have a most uncommon skull. —  The Book of Humorous Verse
• [FN#32] The peculiar place where the guardians of the tomb sit and confabulate is the Dakkat al-Aghawat (eunuch's bench) or Al-Mayda-the table-a raised bench of stone and wood, on the North side of the Hujrah. —  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah ; Meccah — Volume 1
• Write poetry, don't confabulate! an Obama poem for those whose poetic appetites were not satisfied: —  Blog updates
• Buddhism (& Taoism) has insisted, for centuries, that we confabulate our entire —  New Scientist - Earth

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