Yeah , in what you could do with it because its goal is to allow you to get nutrients and survive . The goal of the olfactory system is very different . It's being used , not in our case , but in every animal species to , you know , identify friend versus foe , to identify mate , to identify ecological niches they wanna be in .
It's malleable and is subjected to learning and experience . But unlike the olfactory system is restricted . Yeah , in what you could do with it because its goal is to allow you to get nutrients and survive .
These are aversive in the factory system . It's claimed that we can smell millions of different os yet for the most part , none of them have an innate , predetermined meaning in the olfactory system , meaning is imposed by learning and experience even the smell of smoke . So I'm gonna give you , I'm gonna make it differently .
So , is there a change in the receptors , the distribution , the number , the sensitivity , et cetera that can explain the transition from wanting to avoid vegetables to being willing to eat vegetables simply in childhood to to early . I'm gonna take the question slightly differently , but I think it will illustrate the point and , and I wanna just illus use the difference between the olfactory system and the taste system to make the point taste system . Five basic palettes .
So it's not gonna take a lot of your brain if we can in fact , smell a million others and everyone else of others had to have predetermined meaning there's not gonna be enough brain just to accommodate that one sense . And so evolution in its infinite wisdom ee evolve a system where you put together a pathway and a cortex , olfactory cortex where you have the capacity to associate every other in a specific context that now gives it the meaning . No , let's go back to the original question then .