[extropy-chat] Questionnaire on senses

[Mike Dougherty]

On 1/25/07, Anders Sandberg <asa at nada.kth.se> wrote:
> A fun finding is that we humans can do scent tracking:

> makes it easier). Maybe that could be used for data mining. Data is
> scented, and as you pursue the right context the smell gets more "right".
>
> beetle. The new electronic smell from my phone USB connector and phone
> seems to have ebbed since last week.


Would this information still be "smell"  if the olfactory modality is
usurped for some other purpose, does it retain an inherent olfactory
association?