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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (186917)	11/16/2009 2:13:29 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

Yes, it is. Perfect for Thanksgiving. We have so many blessings.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (186917)	11/16/2009 2:57:18 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

I found something related to the senses: A Nose Never Forgets, Ctd Andrew Sprung builds off Jonah Lehrer's thoughts on the biology of smell: I think that we describe sights more precisely than smells and tastes not because smell and taste are more emotionally laden but because they're less precise senses than sight. (Maybe because of some processing in that trip to the thalamus that smells don't make?) You can say of a tree's appearance that it's thirty feet tall, has a spear-shaped leaf crown, reddish bark in fishlike scales, and needle foliage; all you can say about the experience of eating a grapefruit is that it tastes like a more sour orange and smells fragrant and pungent. All language is ultimately relative, comparative -- but our range of comparison is much richer with visual data. andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com now, I think this fellow thinks of 'we' too universally. directly on taste, we compare to other things we've eaten... but only mostly. it 'can' taste like something we've scented. and smells frangrant and pungent? well, anyone who sits about in the world and smells, can relate that to many many things. and the weather... we feel growing dew point on our skin, but also in our nostrils, and the scent of the air changes... and I'm just guessing, but I think you are another who can lift their nose and feel the ions (or whatever they are) in the air when lightning is striking? gracious, our inner nostrils are bare skin (feel), with the added ability to smell. I think of how cold water feels over a head full of hair as to how it feels over an army buzz. or something like that. smile.