Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Philosophy Wire: Smell the jasmine…


Based on highly sensitive recordings of neuron activity in the noses of mice, researchers have found that olfactory sensory neurons can exhibit suppression or enhancement of response when odors are mixed, overturning a long-standing view that the response is a simple sum with more complex processing only happening at later stages. [1] Smell the jasmine. No, it is not just a jasmine. It is your old parent's house. It is your hopes as a child. Your dreams and things that never came to be. It is that galaxy you saw during that night and you still cannot recall whether it was a dream or not. Smell the jasmine. Open your eyes. See? It is just a jasmine. (Why do you cry in an empty cosmos?)

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