Smell: Natures internet?
Reading Ackerman's accounts of the tantalizing world of smell had me in awe of the magnanimity of the world of smells. However, their ability to instantaneously transport you and its ability to invoke emotions all over the spectrum are phenomena that I think don't get the awe and admiration they deserve. Over the winter I tested positive for COVID 19, following which, unfortunately, I lost my sense of smell for a little while. Reading the accounts and the vivid descriptions of the arousing nature of smell made me reflect on my days without it and I realized that my days did feel a little less vibrant, a little bland, lacking the flavor of life around me. The omnipresent nature of smell made me think of it like being Natures very own internet. Just like the internet it is a whole other world that is invisible to the naked eye, a nexus where information is constantly being uploaded and downloaded, and just like computers, out connection to it: the nose. Jus...