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As it concerns staying mentally healthy, does the human brain care whether it receives love and affection coming from a real person, or imagined love and affection coming from a fictional character? I mean, evolutionarily-speaking, it seems like it'd be inefficient to bother developing some way to discern between the two, similar to how the brain doesn't care whether you're masturbating or having sex and produces an orgasm either way.

Asking for my wife BTW.