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I quite like "confabulation" as a term.

From Merriam webster: to fill in gaps in memory by fabrication

"Confabulation" also sounds too anthropomorphic to my tastes. Especially because "fabrication" often implies "intent to" by the actor in question. It's the exact same problem as "bullshit", just the G-rated grandiloquent version. To be fair, human languages were built to anthropomorphize almost everything so finding the right terms here is hard.

“WorldMaker” seems to be a little anthropomorphized to me.

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