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[TheGreatErenan]

I don't find it especially amusing, but I do find it really interesting. It's almost as though on some fundamental level, the human brain regards even fictional things at least partially in the same way that it regards real things. The way I see it is that if a story is written very well, such that the characters "feel real" in your mind, then they don't just feel real, but your mind actually kind of regards them as real, even if just a little bit. Consciously, you know they are not real, but subconsciously, your mind still regards them as such and affords a similar kind of mental processing to them as it does for real things.