Comment on smellulator

Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Smell is a pretty complex thing.

For vision, we only have four different kinds of receptors, which can be stimulated by electromagnetic waves on a one-dimensional spectrum.

For smells, we have about 350 different kinds of receptors. Also, they can’t easily be stimulated by electromagnetic waves, but only by molecules, which are much more difficult/costly to transport to their corresponding receptors.

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