NEUTRALLAB. INDEPENDENT NEURAL SYSTEMS LABORATORY OPEN EXPLORER ↗
RESEARCH / ACTIVEISSUE 01 — 2026
FROM SYNTHETIC NEURONS TO EMERGENT SYSTEMS

THE BRAIN
IS NOT A GRID.

We build experimental neural architectures at extraordinary scales, then test what actually happens. Anatomical structure. Plasticity. Computation. Evidence over mythology.

EXPLORE ANATOMY↗VIEW RESEARCH ↓
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HRA / HUMAN REFERENCE BRAIN ATLAS283 identified anatomical meshes · reference geometry, not a synaptic connectome
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CONNECTOMICS✳NEURAL DYNAMICS✳ANATOMICAL GEOMETRY✳PLASTICITY✳OPEN RESEARCH✳
01 / RESEARCH PROGRAMMETHREE SCALES. ONE QUESTION.

HOW FAR CAN
WE GO?

A neural system is more than a number. Our work spans addressable populations, active dynamics, structure-aware memory, and the cost of putting them together.

Different milestones have different levels of evidence. We show those differences instead of erasing them.

NL / S01 RELEASED RESEARCH
500M

HQ500M

Virtual neuron addressing, sparse CPU dynamics, dendritic proxies, plasticity and verifiable checkpoints.

ADDRESSABLE MODEL↗
NL / S02 EXPERIMENTAL
8.6B

HQ8.6B

Scaling the synthetic architecture and exploring more demanding compute and memory strategies.

RESEARCH ARCHITECTURE↗
NL / S03 RESEARCH FRONTIER
86B

Human-scale target

A numerical scale target, not proof of a human mind, complete brain connectivity or biological equivalence.

INDEPENDENT VALIDATION PENDING↗

✳ Numbers describe virtual model populations or research targets, not measured biological neurons simultaneously simulated.

02 / INTERACTIVE WORKBENCH

DON'T JUST
LOOK. INSPECT.

Explore 283 individually named anatomical structures from the Human Reference Atlas. Rotate the brain, reveal the cerebellum, select regions and inspect their UBERON identities. Our synthetic HQ500M connections remain in a separate research view.

ATLASHUMAN BRAIN / HRA V1.3
GEOMETRYANATOMICAL REFERENCE
STRUCTURES283 NAMED MESHES
LAUNCH 3D EXPLORER↗
Three-dimensional anatomical reference brain, HRA/Allen Brain AtlasNEUTRALLAB ↗VIEWPORT / 001HRA ATLAS · INTERACTIVE◉
03 / RESEARCH INTEGRITYWHAT COUNTS AS EVIDENCE

NOT EVERY
CONNECTION
IS A FACT.

A biological wiring diagram, a synthetic model and a hypothesis are three different things. NeutralLab keeps the boundaries visible.

READ THE SOURCE ↗
01
OBSERVATION

What was measured?

Only actual source data and reproducible test outcomes qualify. Every benchmark belongs to its hardware, date and method.

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SIMULATION

What was modeled?

Virtual neurons, algorithmic wiring and procedural 3D anatomy are synthetic abstractions with explicit limitations.

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03
UNCERTAINTY

What remains unknown?

Neural counts alone do not establish cognition, consciousness or anatomical fidelity. Claims require independent evidence.

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04 / VERIFIED TESTSNO MAGIC NUMBERS
CONTROLLED CPU EXPERIMENT1,080,623 IDsdistinct membrane states updated over two ticks

Measured in a bounded synthetic HQ500M CPU workload. Only 32,768 of those IDs spiked. This is not a million simultaneous firing neurons and not an artificial human brain.

SOURCE & METHOD ↗
UPDATED IDS SPIKING IDS

Comparison within one documented CPU test. Not an apples-to-apples benchmark of biological activity.

05 / LAB RECORDSOPEN ENGINEERING

BUILD. TEST.
DOCUMENT.

Source code, benchmark artifacts, architectural notes and experimental limits. The research record should outlive any screenshot.

REPOSITORY / 01HQ500M — Synthetic neural dynamics and the CPU research engineSYSTEMS / PLASTICITY↗ REPOSITORY / 02HQ8.6B — Scaling experiments beyond the first 500 millionARCHITECTURE↗ REPOSITORY / 03Noosphere — Evidence-oriented external memory for AI agentsMEMORY / AGENTS↗
NEUTRALLAB / RESEARCH WORKBENCH

SEE WHAT
WE'RE BUILDING.

ENTER THE EXPLORER↗