Smell with Benjamin Young
Overthink
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Smells Complex Entities
When we started thinking about how we think about things, it's very clear that this is mediated by vision and language. And the nice thing about vision is that it usually presents us with a complex object with all of its parts all at once. But when you think about smells, we smell these objects, these odor plumes, as uniform, yet complex entities. We don't have access to the parts. So given that we have this problem of complexity when it comes to a factory experience, how does our understanding of consciousness have to change?
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