tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post3123811970305763296..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: Recent Research on Odors michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-74163141729550417672014-03-25T18:12:18.244-07:002014-03-25T18:12:18.244-07:00Eric: Jitterbug Perfume! I should've riffed on...Eric: Jitterbug Perfume! I should've riffed on that, maybe, instead of Oliver Sacks's olfactory hallucinations.<br /><br />I found there's a bunch of stuff on advertising making use of olfactory science and what subtle scents tend to make people buy more, but...no room.<br /><br />Are you still having Blogger trouble?michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-73103894041142994712014-03-25T18:08:58.872-07:002014-03-25T18:08:58.872-07:00Anon-
The energy/QM explanatory scheme I don'...Anon-<br /><br />The energy/QM explanatory scheme I don't entirely understand (I tried to follow it into its intricacies as far as I could go), but it appeals to me. It could be we have two mechanisms that are complementary and are really more like two explanatory levels?<br /><br />NeoCons have been crying that we're jumping into a war with Putin since about 5 weeks ago. Wm Kristol has never even come close to going to combat, but he sure loves to send Unistatian boys to do the killing that makes him feel tough. What a complete and utter clod. He, like David Brooks and Thomas Friedman, are always "experts" in the mainstream TV media, and you can bet as a Sure Thing that whatever they think is going on, that it's NOT that. All three seem to manage to be wrong about EVERYTHING they talk about. Chomsky calls this intellectual "expert" role the function of the "commissar class."<br /><br />http://crooksandliars.com/2014/02/watch-bill-maher-call-out-bill-kristol<br /><br />http://crooksandliars.com/2014/02/watch-bill-maher-call-out-bill-kristolmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-53949887779177976952014-03-24T16:41:45.107-07:002014-03-24T16:41:45.107-07:00"Fe fi foe fum..."
Terrific post. It ma..."Fe fi foe fum..."<br />Terrific post. It made me think of the discussions of perfume in Tom Robbins' Jitterbug Perfume and in Americn Hustle. <br />"Is it perfume from a dress<br />That makes me so digress?"Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-7331147114582818932014-03-24T10:47:16.638-07:002014-03-24T10:47:16.638-07:00Interesting, the newer research
seems to make more...Interesting, the newer research<br />seems to make more sense than the<br />older speculations.<br /><br />The scent system is more primitive<br />and someone said (years ago) that<br />it will regrow if damaged. That<br />seems to imply it is really more<br />important (in evolutionary terms)<br />than the other senses. It is also<br />coupled tightly to long term<br />memory retrieval. Apparently we<br />encode a gestalt (hologram) of<br />memory with all the pertinent<br />surround. These seem to function<br />as tags for retrieval later.<br />Sounds like, tastes like, smells<br />like, feels like will pull them<br />out again for a comparison with<br />your now event.<br />The QM aspect is energy levels,<br />that's the easy way to decode the<br />jargon of today. The sensor part<br />has to recognize the input from<br />its energy level and isotopes<br />change these levels. Subtle as it<br />seems the sensor has to be really<br />good to do it. Another point of<br />evolutionary bias, if it wasn't<br />important it would have been left<br />off long ago.<br />There's also a profound link to<br />taste, maybe that's what cooking<br />is all about. The olfactory then<br />detects the gourmet variants of<br />what we think is really good food.<br /><br />I do know that the civilized city<br />world has a lot of horrible<br />smells which impact this sense<br />to distort our other senses.<br /><br />I'm still thinking about gossip.<br />Searle of IEET is a class example<br />of framing. He just can't get<br />past the idea of Russia as the<br />bogeyman, it makes him misread<br />Putin completely.<br /><br />The nuttier variety of chicken-<br />hawk will soon break out in a chorus of hatred for POTUS for<br />not wanting to play brinkmanship<br />games over the Ukraine.<br /><br />You'd think after all these years<br />someone would have read Sun Tzu<br />and bothered to understand the Rus<br />when they were the dreaded enemy.<br />And I don't mean the ridiculous<br />viewpoint fed to Washington by<br />the Gehlen Apparat Tsarists.<br /><br />That's the bad smell of the day.<br />Another great post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com