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How We Smell

How We're Wired

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The Importance of Smell in the Western World

In western culture we ignore the alfactory system as a conscious level. We cannot think sight is important and hearings important, and unlesse on the smell frond it anywed. When people lose it with various disorders sthat they suddenly cannot go. I so actually, in a sense, in the west, we underestimate what it brings to our lives. It's very much active. Do we have a sense of smell in the womb? Number of nernatil study be been done about se ifino preference to breast milk,. So they they recognize smell of mum stead of es within the wombad an, certainly it's very muchactive.

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