>>16245324It's not the data, it's what the data represents.
Getting attached to characters in stories is a similar thing; They're just words, or images, or someone's act, the characters themselves aren't real in any sense beyond what they mean to the audience that cares about them.
But you're a quality, intelligent individual aren't you? Surely you realized this on your own and are just fishing for mad?
You didn't, really, need me to spell it out for you did you, champ?