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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/14/human-sense-of-smell-is-faster-than-previously-thought-study-suggests
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From the article: The human sense of smell is nothing to turn one’s nose up at, research suggests, with scientists revealing we are far more sensitive to the order of odours captured by a sniff than previously thought.
Charles Darwin is among those who have cast aspersions on our sense of smell, suggesting it to be “of extremely slight service” to humans, while scientists have long thought our olfactory abilities rather sluggish.
“Intuitively, each sniff feels like taking a long-exposure shot of the chemical environment,” said Dr Wen Zhou, co-author of the research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, adding that when a smell is detected it can seem like one scent, rather than a discernible mixture of odours that arrived at different times. “Sniffs are also separated in time, occurring seconds apart from one another,” she said.
But now researchers have revealed our sense of smell operates much faster than previously thought, suggesting we are as sensitive to rapid changes in odours as we are to rapid changes in colour.
A key challenge to probing our sense of smell, said Zhou, is that it has been difficult to create a setup that enables different smelly substances to be presented in a precise sequence in time within a single sniff.
However, writing in the journal [Nature Human Behaviour](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01984-8), Zhou and colleagues report how they did just that by creating an apparatus in which two bottles containing different scents were hooked up to a nosepiece using tubes of different lengths. These tubes were fitted with miniature check valves that were opened by the act of taking a sniff.
Most of these people, Darwin included smoked cigarettes. It’s no surprise that their noses were messed up
we need to expand what we think is normal for human consciousness. whatever you experience, there are some who would feel it 10x more and others 10x less or not at all.
People and insects could smell something faster than air can make the purported ‘odor molecules’ travel from source to nose. Thomas Dyktra’s body of evidence suggests that insect sensillae (scent organs) are more like “vibrational” antennae than chemical receptors–the prevailing theory. “smell is electromagnetic resonance” There is also great work by biophysicist Dr. Irena Cosic, who has pioneered the “Resonant Recognition Model”; where she has empirically shown that intermolecular communication is occuring via electromagnetic signalling.