Your Brain Makes Things Up. So Does AI.

Your brain invents reasons for choices you never made, and AI chatbots invent answers they don't know. The same flaw shows up in a famous split-brain experiment and in AI "hallucinations." Here's the evidence, and what to do about it. 00:00 The face you didn't choose 00:53 Reasons without causes 01:33 The split brain 02:30 The chicken and the shovel 03:44 Why AI makes things up 05:22 Brains vs chatbots 06:02 Learning to say I don't know Sources Johansson, Hall, Sikström & Olsson (2005), Failure to detect mismatches between intention and outcome in a simple decision task, Science 310: 116–119. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1111709 Hall & Johansson (2009), Choice blindness: you don't know what you want, New Scientist 2704. https://www.lucs.lu.se/fileadmin/user_uplo... Nisbett & Wilson (1977), Telling more than we can know, Psychological Review 84(3): 231–259 Gazzaniga (1998), The split brain revisited, Scientific American 279(1) Roger Sperry's split-brain experiments: https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/roger-sperrys... Mata v. Avianca (S.D.N.Y. 2023): https://news.bgov.com/us-law-week/fake-cha... OpenAI (2025), Why language models hallucinate: https://openai.com/index/why-language-mode... Previous film: Is AI Conscious? Why Smarter Doesn't Mean Aware:    • Is AI Conscious? Why Smarter Doesn't Mean ...   Visuals are original motion graphics and illustrations, not real experimental footage. Narration uses a synthetic voice. #SplitBrain #AIHallucination #Neuroscience