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Well, I have synesthetic smell/color senses, so I don’t even know what other humans experience, nor they me. But, I have described it in detail to many people a
by mickdarling 3y ago
Well, I have synesthetic smell/color senses, so I don’t even know what other humans experience, nor they me. But, I have described it in detail to many people and they seem to get the idea, and can even predict how certain smells will “look” to me. All that took was using words to describe things.
- nyokodo 3y ago> All that took was using words to describe things. All that took was words and a shared experience of smelling.
- mickdarling 3y agoHow rude, what do our bathing habits have to do with this? ;-) But, fair point. The gist I was trying to get across is that I don't even know what a plant smells like to you, and you don't know what a plant smells like to me. Those aren't comparable with any objective data. We make guesses, and we try to get close with our descriptions, which are in words. That's the best we can do and we share our senses. Asking more from computers seems overly picky to me.