Is There an Emotional Barrier to Creating Convincing Characters?

What makes fictional characters seem real, like you could reach behind the wall of words and find a living, breathing person there? A related question is: As a writer, how can I pretend to inhabit the mind of someone who has a different world view, background, knowledge, obsessions, and longings than I do?

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