How Does Smell Shape Perceptions?

Smell is a process of your perceiving air born chemicals. Smell exists to help us understand information about our environment that might prove to be a threat or an opportunity. Something about the molecule shape will let us know a what it's going to smell like. But you can change that shape a little tiny bit, and the smell will shift in this unexpected way. Can we smell infinite smells? Are there things that perhaps aren't even invented yet, that have, that will have a smell that we've never smelled? Would we be able to smell that?

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