A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to ...

Psychotic disorders affect millions worldwide, and hallucinations are just one symptom that can severely impact daily life, leading to isolation, distress, and reduced quality of life. A significant ...

Chinese AI startup Zhupai aka z.ai is back this week with an eye-popping new frontier large language model: GLM-5. The latest in z.ai's ongoing and continually impressive GLM series, it retains an ...

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After repeatedly denying for weeks that his force used AI tools, the chief constable of the West Midlands police has finally admitted that a hugely controversial decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv ...

Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) is characterised by the presence of visual hallucinations following visual loss in many patients. The neuropathophysiology of CBS is poorly understood. We used ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

Dr. Ashwin Amurthur (Neurology): A 57-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of persistent visual disturbances involving the right visual field, episodes of shaking of the right arm and ...

The idea that we’re living inside a simulation, as popularized by “The Matrix” franchise, has piqued the interest of scientists for decades. In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed in a highly ...

The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...

“His first misperceptions occurred when he was in a nightclub; the skin of the other dancers, even their faces, seemed to be covered with tattoos. At first, he thought the tattoos were real, but they ...

If such a simulation were possible, the simulated universe could itself give rise to life, which in turn might create its own simulation. This recursive possibility makes it seem highly unlikely that ...