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Sniffing out smell: how the brain organizes information about odors
- Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago"There's no computer algorithm or machine that will take a chemical structure and tell us what that chemical will smell like." perked my blue sky thinking cap until I read "[but first] we need to understand how the brain encodes information about smells" Datta said. "We hope our findings are a step down that path." Idle curiosity makes me wonder whether something like cerebral organoid research was far along enough for it to be viable, especially given that different species could experience smells in very different ways and possibly process smells differently? Lay man's guess says yes and using organoids could allow for easier measuring/interfacing. Ugh, I've watched too many Frankenstein movies, My bad. [Edit - Reworded my comment after realizing something about a reference I made to a novel]