How does mind differentiate between bad and good smells?
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long ago your ancestor had a buddy whose brain reacted to a “bad” smell by thinking it was “good”
your ancestor’s buddy ate the bad smelling thing. then he died, never having had a kid.
your ancestor reacted to the “bad” smell by thinking it was “bad”.
he didn’t eat the bad smelling thing.
he did not die.
he had a kid who was the next person in the line who would lead to you, passing on the gene that created the cells that reacted to “bad” smells as “bad”
that’s why your brain reacts to bad smells that way.
similar for good smells.
the brain differentiates between them by a very mysterious process that we really don’t understand, and we think may be governed by quantum mechanics.
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