what up, dog?    sure, but it's also something that separates us from animals. being capable of holding the fictional characters or parasocial relationships in our brains is adaptive.  sharing many of the same fictional characters or parasocial relationships with strangers is what enables us to exist in societies with more than a few thousand people at all.  after that we get all kinds of relationships between the fictional characters / parasocial relationships that enables us to have societies of millions or billions.
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