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12. The Space of Olfaction is δ-Hyperbolic

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Loud gekkering in the middle distance. If you listen carefully, you can make out some dubiously insightful remarks on math, AI alignment, philosophy, and world events. (Epistemic status: barely even half-baked - but unique, intriguingly plausible, and anyway no one has any better ideas.) Vision, hearing, the numerous aspects of touch, taste, and smell: of these, smell - or olfaction - is by far the worst-understood, even if we try to tease out the role that olfaction plays in flavor, separating it from the gustation and chemoception that strict-sense taste encompasses. As Convergent Research puts it, “We can’t yet replicate animal olfaction synthetically as a sensing and classification modality. We currently lack a comprehensive model explaining how biological systems decode and classify chemical signals through olfaction. Understanding this process is critical for applications ranging from flavor science to disease diagnostics to understanding and harnessing animal communication.” Thi

12. The Space of Olfaction is δ-Hyperbolic Get link Facebook X Pinterest Email Other Apps July 21, 2025 (Epistemic status: barely even half-baked - but unique, intriguingly plausible, and anyway no one has any better ideas.) Vision, hearing, the numerous aspects of touch, taste, and smell: of these, smell - or olfaction - is by far the worst-understood, even if we try to tease out the role that olfaction plays in flavor, separating it from the gustation and chemoception that strict-sense taste encompasses. As Convergent Research puts it, “We can’t yet replicate animal olfaction syn

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