[extropy-chat] Questionnaire on senses

[scerir]

Anders Sandberg
> Smell is interesting because it always deals with superpositions. We
> recognize a pure color, point of touch or pure tone, but there is no
> corresponding unit of smell. Physiologically speaking there are of course
> individual receptors, but we do not recognize smells that just activate
> one of them.

It seems there is something new (2006), in the literature.
The revival of the old theory by Luca Turin.

[review]
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/the-quantum-mechanics-of-sme
ll/
[sciam]
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=885622AA-E7F2-99DF-3859D89E5980A4
B2
[mechanism]
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0611205
[new molecules, for perfums]
http://www.flexitral.com/research.html
[book by Luca Turin]
http://www.faber.co.uk/book_detail.html?bid=35988&clid=17