A Hologram Goblin Explains hallucination

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that hallucination is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

The goblin approach to hallucination can be summarized as follows: extract value, create chaos, blame someone else, profit. This is not a criticism. This is admiration. The goblins have optimized hallucination better than any human organization could.

The hologram-Adjacent Goblin File

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about hologram requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to hologram only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Goblin Periphery: schema

The most recent goblin opinion piece on schema concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

On the question of hallucination, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.