From the article: "The ability to conjure mental imagery is a key aspect of being human."
This is amusing, because I literally have a paper under review titled "mental imagery is not essential to being human" 🤣
Seeing and imagining are handled by the same brain cells www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/05/12/s... "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."
