"In March 2020, a story appeared in the press that took just hours to become a meme: Caelie Wilkens, a British woman, had been caring for a plant that turned out to be made of plastic for two years. Wilkens was telling the newspaper that she felt a deep disappointment, that "those last two years had been a lie." I laughed. I forwarded it to contacts who also laughed. But two years later, every so often, I am reminded of that devastated woman's words. I wonder if, during those two years of care, until the woman dissected the pot and discovered a piece of cork at the bottom, that plant was really fake, or if, as in the Schrödinger's cat experiment (impossible to verify), that plant was real and fake, simultaneously, until the very moment when it was taken out of the pot and had to decide on one of those two states. The question that every month or two comes back to my head is the following: can something that produces real feelings become fake? "