This is fascinating and gets pretty interesting. As a computational neuroscience person, some of the more advanced neural signal processing algorithms use gener

This is fascinating and gets pretty interesting. As a computational neuroscience person, some of the more advanced neural signal processing algorithms use generate models internally to model recorded neural data. The result is likely a smoothed, simplified, and hopefully more interpretable view of neural data, but there's no guarantee that some portion of the resulting multidimensional signal isn't hallucinated. As a result, most findings should be validated by verifying that some property of interest is present in the high dimensional raw neural data, though that's only conceptually possible sometimes.