Pretend that our understanding of the brain has expanded so much and our technology has become so great that this is our new reality: we, humans, have created conscious software.

Seeing and imagining use similar brain machinery. New research reveals the brain circuit that identifies what is real, which ...

The Human Brain Looks Suspiciously Like the Universe, Which May Freak You Out There are one too many similarities for this to be a coincidence.

The idea of a synthetic experience uploaded to the mind has been a sci-fi fantasy forever. New brain-computer interfaces are making it nonfiction—very slowly.

How does your brain know something is real? Your brain blends imagination and reality—sometimes too well. Keith Wagstaff Published Jul 11, 2025 9:00 AM EDT ...

UCLA neurophysicists have found that space-mapping neurons in the brain react differently to virtual reality than they do to real-world environments. Their findings could be significant for people ...

"Just imagine how a human brain would look using this same technique," says another commenter, "the moment of first love, fear, or anguish, it would all seem like a continuum of electrical ...

Strikingly simple 'dial' in the brain may help it distinguish imagination from reality When your mind goes 'blank,' your brain activity resembles deep sleep, scans reveal Memories aren't static in ...

Answers about how the brain as a whole integrates activity among areas, however, have proved elusive. Just what does a “smart” brain look like?

When we look around, it feels like we're seeing an objective reality. But neuroscientist Anil Seth says everything we perceive, from objects to emotions, is an act of informed guesswork by the brain.

To do so, they directed their attention to the complex circuitry of the human brain. “We wondered if we could see how local circuits in the brain react in patients with autism,” explains the ...