It seems like any color or sound can be accurately encoded (and recreated) with just a few numbers. Yet that doesn’t seem to be the case with smell or flavor. You can take a photo or sound recording and it’ll be a faithful recreation, but there’s no way to do that with smells or flavors. Is it a technology limitation or is there something fundamental to them that makes it harder to encode?
In: Physics
Nobody knows how to mechanize subjective experiences yet. There’s a lot of philosophical writing about this and theory of mind etc that can give you some insights as to why this is impossible currently
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