
Ann-Sophie Barwich: Smellosophy--The Philosophy & Neuroscience of Smell
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You and I Do Not Have the Same Receptors
Humans have about 400 olfactory receptors. Each individual molecule has about five thousand molecular perometers involved in its binding with the receptors. This is why you can smell so many different shitons of molecules. It's not philosophy as the handmaiden, but science as delivering evidence for philosophical theories. We'll maybe look at the comments and we'llepeas, just lay te a,. because ii think there was something about cancelling ounes like o ca ine va... But well, keep them. Come in and we'l bring in questions.
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