Sunday, December 31, 2006

You'll smell it when you believe it

The perception of an odor does not always match the odor. The context under which the odor is presented influences the scent. This suggests that the perception of a scent is mediated, which supports a philosophical position that human conscious experience is mediated from the physical environment. Read the article.

Scientists may be taking small steps toward supplying experimental data that confirms mystical beliefs. By recognizing that human conscious experience is mediated, one may also recognize that optimal use of human consciousness should not only account for the physical environment of the human, but also on the mental architecture and idioms of the human mind. While believing in the physical existence of fairy creatures is superstitious, believing in the mental existence of subconscious intelligent processes that might be interfaced in a manner suggestive of fairy creatures to the naive subject may be another tool for intelligent operation of the brain, by the brain.

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