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Taste

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The Relationship Between Smell and Eating

Taste is just the sensation rather than necessarily eating. Smells penetrate our bodies, but we don't incorporate them into our living activity and they don't replenish life itself. And I suppose you could say that neither does taste because taste just has to do with a sensory perception of the thing in our mouth whereas eating is in principle different. But there's at minimum a much closer link between allomentation and taste than between smell and allomentations.

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