Is There a Synthetic Component to the Senses?

The sounds of life, how digital technology is bringing us closer to the worlds of animals and plants is now available at booksellers everywhere. The idea that certain quantum biological phenomena may have a vibrational component at the molecular scale has been put forward by Luca Turin in Greece. Inelastic electron tunneling explains how we can have such a finely tuned sense of smell. And people are just waking up to the idea of using this in some way in their own specific field.