this whole twitter account proves the necessity of funding study in the humanities. you don’t achieve levels of intellectual swag like this unless you let people nerd out on random stuff, like smell
The function of smell is to alert us to changes in our environment, so you’d notice if a place suddenly stopped smelling, for instance. All of these statements rely on a disparity in sensory stimuli anyway. Someone would only remark about darkness or quietness if they had just
her PhD in English and thesis about smell may involve biology but it was built around pure literary analysis. this is about how we describe smell more than just the sensory experience
as someone who literally studied cognitive science, half of any good cognitive science program starts with humanities. in fact, we have zero of modern science without philosophy. especially in regards to anything about cognition.
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