Taste
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An essay on the concept of taste and its implications.
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First, scent and taste are strongly interrelated:
https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/taste-smell-connection/
Also, odor receptors aren't only in nasal passages. They are also distributed throughout the body: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/aging-neuroscience/arti...
So sure, our sensory information- our sense of the world- is full of data that is so richly complicated, even the best achievable computational power may never fully grasp. And sure, each of us lives in a different reality based on very individual sensory responses.
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