We all learnt that sound is basically vibration in the air, sight is rebouncing light (or photon emission) and feel is difference in pressure. It’s easy to replicate these three senses (Eg phone can emit sound, light and vibration) relatively.
But what “creates” smell and taste and why is it so hard to replicate?
In: Chemistry
It’s worth noting that your sense of smell isn’t processed the same way as your other senses. Smell is primal, the first since we ever had as life on this Earth was probably a type of smell, taste, or chemical sensitivity. modern humans have an olfactory bulb, which can process smells and direct your body accordingly, so you are capable of smelling things without being consciously aware of them cerebrally, a trick the other senses can’t do. This is why pheromones work the way they do. Taste is similar. Smell and taste are more directly wired into our limbic systems, certain tastes or smells will make you immediately vomit for example with no need to be aware of what they are. Pheromones help regulate almost every part of our social behavior.
Sight sound and touch all run through the cerebral cortex, but your sense of smell isn’t quite so limited. It may seem like your sense of smell is more limited, but in fact it’s doing all kinds of shit you don’t know about all by itself without any interaction from you.
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