Are the Confabulation Theories of Thaler and Hecht-Nielsen Isomorphic?
I don't think they map onto each other, aside from RHN's brief discussion of thalamo-cortical loops, the inspiration for SLT's so-called "Creativity Machines." In SLT's architectures, compelling/cogent solution patterns are sought within a stream of novel activation patterns (i.e., confabulations) driven by various forms of internal disturbances to biological neural nets. RHN's definition of cogency is obviously not the same. The mathematics of SLT's model are scattered over several patents and papers, but the following might provide an overview: Predicting ultra-hard binary compounds via cascaded auto- and hetero-associative neural networks, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 279(1998), 47-59, Synaptic Perturbation and Consciousness, International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 6(2):75-107, 2014, Cycles of Insanity and Creativity within Contemplative Neural Systems, Medical Hypotheses, 94:138-147, Elsevier, 2016, and Pattern Turnover within Synaptically Perturbed Neural Systems, Procedia Computer Science, 88, Elsevier, 2016.