Well? something horrible just happened to me? my hands were full with my books, and I wanted to write something on the whiteboard (math problems so that I could study for an upcoming test). So what do I do? I try to be efficient? instead of putting down my books, then proceed to open the magic marker cap? I decided to use my teeth ? all of a sudden, I felt a leakage? I must have ruptured something in the marker with my teeth. It flowed on me, and the taste was horrible?
After reporting the scenario to my surroundings, I sat down and gave this situation a philosophical aspect/thought. I was thinking whether or not there is any correlation that the scent that we smell has something to do w/ our perception of the taste of an object. Of course this is all based on the norms in which we are brought up? and it is relevant only to particular culture. Can it be? That our sense of smell (due to culture, meaning that our culture has determined for us, that the smell of sh!t is horrible, whereas the smell of apple-scented lotion is pleasurable) ? can we use this scent-based norms to enact an ideal as to what something will taste like?
I?ve never tasted marker ink before? however, when I finally did (just now) it tasted as if I would have expected it to taste? and that was based on the smell that I have inhibited myself towards? in association with it of course. Do you guys agree w/ such an argument? Can it be that our perception of taste is actually due in part to our perception of smell ? which is rendered to be ?good? or ?bad to our social norms/standards?
I certainly think so? To put things into a different perspective, I?m sure that if we eat our own disposals (even we are able brought to do such a thing) would not be to our liking? why? Because we hate the smell? true? I believe so, because our society has deemed such a smell to be gross? something associated with decomposition? and I?m sure that the taste will be due in large part to the registration of the smell into our heads?. We can turn the table around and realize that dogs eat their own disposals? why? Because they have different norms (so to speak)? their scent for disposal is probably to their liking? who really knows (Dr. Dolittle)? never the less? something to ponder
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After reporting the scenario to my surroundings, I sat down and gave this situation a philosophical aspect/thought. I was thinking whether or not there is any correlation that the scent that we smell has something to do w/ our perception of the taste of an object. Of course this is all based on the norms in which we are brought up? and it is relevant only to particular culture. Can it be? That our sense of smell (due to culture, meaning that our culture has determined for us, that the smell of sh!t is horrible, whereas the smell of apple-scented lotion is pleasurable) ? can we use this scent-based norms to enact an ideal as to what something will taste like?
I?ve never tasted marker ink before? however, when I finally did (just now) it tasted as if I would have expected it to taste? and that was based on the smell that I have inhibited myself towards? in association with it of course. Do you guys agree w/ such an argument? Can it be that our perception of taste is actually due in part to our perception of smell ? which is rendered to be ?good? or ?bad to our social norms/standards?
I certainly think so? To put things into a different perspective, I?m sure that if we eat our own disposals (even we are able brought to do such a thing) would not be to our liking? why? Because we hate the smell? true? I believe so, because our society has deemed such a smell to be gross? something associated with decomposition? and I?m sure that the taste will be due in large part to the registration of the smell into our heads?. We can turn the table around and realize that dogs eat their own disposals? why? Because they have different norms (so to speak)? their scent for disposal is probably to their liking? who really knows (Dr. Dolittle)? never the less? something to ponder
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