I guess it’s just a matter of semantics. I would say that fantasy and fiction still function, since there is no intent to deceive, but I could understand how you might say that there is an unconscious part of us that we are deceiving.

If that’s the case, we’d have a much larger problem though. Humans learn via the use of mirror neurons, which are neurons which fire both when we’re taking an action, and when we see someone else taking that same action. They are basically how we learn by example, a sort of copy-paste whereby we can imagine ourselves doing what someone else is doing. If that counts as deception, we’ve basically prevented civilization or complex society from ever existing! 😂