# How Humans Hallucinate and How We Deal with It

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The essay treats ordinary human errors as hallucinations and explains how metacognition, tools, institutions, and social norms constrain them.

Blog post · Schemas & Propositions · 7 December 2025

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Schemas & Propositions (schemasandpropositions.substack.com)](https://schemasandpropositions.substack.com/p/how-llms-understand-text-by-me-and)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 7 December 2025
- Published in: Schemas & Propositions
- Language: English

Topics: hallucination, human-cognition, metacognition, epistemology.

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