Fiction and the mind
Stories, fiction included, act as a kind of replacement for life. You can learn information from them very effortlessly. You'll also remember false information without realizing and will find fictional stories emotionally arousing.
The reason we react to fiction as though it were real is that our mind does not even realize that fiction is fiction.
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