Qualia Computing is fun but I'd caution against citing it as a serious academic source, since it mostly consists of abstract conjecture and untested hypotheses.

Qualia Computing is fun but I'd caution against citing it as a serious academic source, since it mostly consists of abstract conjecture and untested hypotheses. But while I'm here, let's explore fun. It could be that recovery from anosmia works like, say, nerve pain from spinal cord injury. It seems that the false feelings (burning, electric shocks, allodynia etc.) experienced by paraplegics are the result of neurons sending very different input than the brain has learned to process. Obviously LSD won't help you walk again, but e.g. exposure therapy for allodynia seems to work, probably through neuroplasticity.