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Dr. Noam Sobel: How Smells Influence Our Hormones, Health & Behavior
Huberman Lab
How to Digitize Smell
We have a map of 4000 molecules. For each one we know they're perceived smell. Now you can make up any mixture you want for me. I can project it into that map and measure its pairwise distance from all the points in the map. If it falls on lemon, then what you generated smells like lemon. And if it falls, you know, on tomato, then whatyou generated smellslike tomato. We now solve that problem we can predict the order of any molecular mixture we can say how it's going to smell. What we can do is then find a set of components which we call order primaries that can be used to mix any order that you can perceive. That's
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