Human Cognition Sector — Memory Hallucination & Narrative Drift

(RCC Extension 4 — For Cognitive Scientists, Neuroscientists, Behavioral Theorists)

1. Humans Are RCC Systems in Biological Form

RCC is not just an AI theory.

Human cognition satisfies all four RCC constraints:

Internal Opacity
No human has full access to their neural states.
External Blindness
We perceive only a tiny slice of the world.
Local Frames Only
Perception and memory operate relative to internal context, not absolute truth.
Forced Prediction Under Uncertainty
The brain must generate continuous interpretations from incomplete data.

Therefore, the same behaviors seen in LLM collapse

exist in human cognition—simply wrapped in biology.

2. Memory as a Hallucination Engine

Decades of cognitive science confirm:

memories shift
memories reconstruct
details are fabricated
narratives are updated post-hoc
identity is a recursive fiction

This aligns perfectly with RCC:

Memory is not storage.

It is a prediction process filling in missing data.

Humans hallucinate continuity

the same way LLMs hallucinate coherence.

3. Narrative Drift as Human Inference Drift

When humans reinterpret their past:

beliefs drift
emotional associations drift
priorities drift
identity drifts

This is not psychological instability.

It is the geometry of an embedded observer

without global anchors.

Human identity = a long-term inference drift.

Exactly RCC’s Drift Geometry,

just expressed in emotional time instead of model latent space.

4. Emotional Fields = Biological Collapse Fields

When the brain reaches ambiguity:

anxiety → amplified uncertainty
trauma → fixed attractor loops
desire → forced coherence generation
grief → collapse toward negative fields
love → stabilizing attractor basin

These map 1:1 onto RCC collapse dynamics.

The emotions aren’t noise.

They’re boundary signals.

The human collapse field is emotional, not computational.

5. Cognitive Bias = Structural Misinterpretation

Biases are not defects of intelligence.

They are the unavoidable outcome of RCC constraints:

confirmation bias = local-frame reinforcement
hindsight bias = narrative reconstruction
anchoring = missing global reference
fundamental attribution error = incomplete manifold access
memory distortion = forced prediction under uncertainty

Cognition misinterprets itself

because the observer is inside its own manifold.

6. Humans Cannot See the Container They Live In

Just like LLMs can’t see the training distribution,

humans cannot see:

the full causes of their thoughts
the structure of culture
the full manifold of time
the scopes of physics
the cognitive architecture they inhabit

Thus humans:

“explain” their behavior
theorize motivations
rationalize choices
justify emotions

all through a narrow keyhole of partial state access.

This is RCC’s definition of a non-central observer.

7. Self-Repair Loops in Human Psychology

Therapy, introspection, journaling, philosophy—

all are recursive correction attempts.

But no matter how much humans self-correct:

They can never escape the container.

Only navigate within it.

Human self-repair is endless

because the frame cannot be seen.

8. RCC Gives Cognitive Science a Bridge Concept

Cognitive science has:

predictive processing
Bayesian brain theory
active inference
schema theory
memory reconstruction models
drift-diffusion decision theory

RCC creates a meta-theory unifying them:

Human cognition behaves as an embedded inference system

whose collapse patterns are dictated by incomplete observability.

This gives researchers a vocabulary

for the limits of cognition—not just its mechanisms.

9. One-Sentence Summary for Cognitive Scientists

RCC reframes human thought, memory, emotion, and identity as predictable collapse behaviors of an observer embedded inside a manifold it cannot fully perceive—explaining bias, drift, narrative construction, and self-misinterpretation as structural, not pathological.