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

🧠 The Immersive Brain We now live in an era where reality no longer ends at what we can touch. Amid screens, sensors and headsets, the human brain has learned to navigate hybrid worlds — spaces where the physical and digital coexist. Neuroscience has shown that within Virtual Reality (VR) or Mixed Reality (XR), the brain believes the illusion. Pupils dilate, muscles react, the heart races — even when the threat is nothing but a string of pixels.