Seeing and imagining are handled by the same brain cells https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/05/12/seeing-and-imagining-are-handled-by-the-same-brain-cells/
"Researchers make advances in understanding how human brains are wired by pinning down how the same neurons are used for both imagining and seeing objects."
"Generative models are one of the most fundamental ways of thinking about how the brain is organized."