How does the brain tag an imagined episode as being fictional or a memory? That's one of the kind of key questions in the scientific study of memory and imagination. For example, if I imagine the same event, for example, myself eating a slice of pie, I can also reflect on the fact that that imagined episode in my mind's eye, it either was a memory that happened to me. And so that metacognitive capacity is actually a very essential part of the puzzle.

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