Brain and Invented Reality We live in the era of overlapping realities. Between what is seen, what is edited, and what is invented, the human brain is being forced to do something it was never designed for: to distinguish the real from the artificial. After all, the brain wasn’t born for deepfakes, AI filters, or mixed realities. Neuroscience is showing that separating the false from the convincing isn’t easy. And that, in practice, the mind doesn’t seek truth — it seek