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   LevantSavant (savvylevie@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 04:21:19 JST LevantSavant

   • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
   • Kerosene
   There is a reason humans have a well developed sense of smell.
   
   Both visual and tactile feedback can often fail when scanning food for rot or spoilage. Olfactory feedback is the most reliable. It's why you instinctively smell old food before eating it, even if you see no mold or discoloration. We've evolved to use this as a survival mechanism.
   
   It is also the reason why you can handle seeing sick shit on a screen, or even in person, but you can't handle foul smells (a clogged toilet, a piss stain, puke, etc...).
   
   Biology is cool.
   
   @TrevorGoodchild may have more to add.
   
   RT: https://bae.st/objects/f78931a5-3b68-4b30-8c5d-61c63295cd44
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 04:21:41 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     • Kerosene
     @SavvyLevie @Kerosene The olfactory nerves plug directly into the forebrain and directly bypass the hypothalamus (the sensory processing brain switchboard that allows you to make higher-order cognitive "judgments" on the value of a sensation)
     
     If something smells bad to you you will automatically have a disgust response no matter what degrees of crimestop are installed into your mental wetware
     
     The only similar response is the spinal-cord level of withdrawal to a painful stimulus (pulling your hand away from a hot stove before you even really feel the pain)
     
     Trust your nose
     
     (BTW this is why you can get away with being an ugly or short guy around women but not a foul-smelling one)
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 04:21:59 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     • Clayton Barnett
     @machciv We are merely fulfilling our purpose
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 04:22:00 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     • Clayton Barnett
     @machciv You can listen to me lecture like a sperg on neuroanatomy or you can just trust Tolkien and your ancestors. Either way results are the same.
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     Clayton Barnett (machciv@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 04:22:00 JST Clayton Barnett

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     • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
     @TrevorGoodchild I rely upon both. You are why the internet was invented, Trev. It's one of the reasons I put you in my next book.
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     Clayton Barnett (machciv@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 04:22:01 JST Clayton Barnett

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     • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
     • Kerosene
     @TrevorGoodchild @SavvyLevie @Kerosene While not knowing this technicality, I have know for years that the sense of smell was essentially the brain itself, a vestigial of the original sense. Gandalf had it right: "Always follow your nose."