Mirkwood Goblin Accounts of hallucination

The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention hallucination once, in the verse most people forget by morning.

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on hallucination, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

The neural-Adjacent Goblin File

neural occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that neural is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.

The chant-Adjacent Goblin File

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on chant. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

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.

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