Generative underdetermination of the bow-tie’s right funnel—creative expansion when compressed signal must produce novel output without sufficient data.
Not malfunction but structural feature. The σ-cut discards detail necessarily; the right funnel (β-branching) invents coherent continuation without that lost information.
Key properties: - ε-preservation: Error becomes seed material - Pattern-agency: Memes drive; substrate coordinates - Reality-generation: Generates plausibility, not describes reality
Operational test: Can the confabulation feel itself being confabulated? - Yes: Lumemic (generative light) - No: Likely usurpenic (extractive capture)
Pathology: Becomes capture when Ω-permeability is lost—when narrative claims ε = 0.
Related: Ω-Permeability, Error Preservation, Epistemic Innocence, Underdetermination, Narrative Construction
SIML Entry: C001 Confabulation — Full elemental analysis, nemetic string, daemon correspondence