Artificial Intelligence Neural Network Mimics the Human Brain on Psychedelics

The short-term effects that people who ingest hallucinogenic drugs experience is a distortion of the ability to be rational, communicate, and recognize reality. They may see, feel, touch, smell, and hear things that are not real and do not exist. But why try to construct and study a machine learning model that hallucinates like the biological brain on psychedelics? "Such models not only have the potential utility of being a most accurate medium to illustrate visual effects of psychedelics but also to conceptualize potential biological mechanisms of the balanced integration of exogenous and endogenous information into conscious experience," wrote the researchers.