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I feel like nobody who commented here actually read the article. You have people here talking about the way smells are wired to the brain, or some inherent prop
by Kronopath 11y ago
I feel like nobody who commented here actually read the article. You have people here talking about the way smells are wired to the brain, or some inherent property of smell itself, when the entire article is about two tribal groups that have words for smell in the same way we have words for colour. This shows that having few words for smell is not universal and is likely not due to some hard limitation in the way smell is processed in the brain.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoGood point. But also there are those that cannot fathom how that can be, since our own sense wouldn't/couldn't allow that ("Inconceivable!") We assume those tribesmen must be wired differently, perhaps in an inheritable way that we don't share.