Definition
Plain language
A condition where a patient genuinely doesn't know they have a deficit, like a stroke patient who can't tell their arm is paralyzed.
As stated in the literature
Clinical-neurology term for unawareness of a neurological deficit; contrasted in this corpus with anosodiaphoria to distinguish missed findings from registered-but-unweighted findings in LLM agent reports.
Why it matters: The clinical concept gives researchers vocabulary to separate 'didn't see the flaw' from 'saw the flaw but didn't weight it' in AI failure analysis.
For example, a stroke patient with anosognosia might insist their paralyzed arm is working normally and try to use it.
Heard on the show
“It's from clinical neurology, and it's specifically distinct from the more familiar term, anosognosia.”Episode 087 — When No Agent Reads the Whole Document: A Universal Cliff in Multi-Agent Review