Dan, a product manager at Facebook, writes a daily blog like me. The other day, Dan wrote a piece about dogs and their sense of smell. Excerpt:
We have about 6 million olfactory receptors, whereas a dog has over 300 million. I thought this would imply that their sense of smell would only be 50x better, but when I asked Claude AI it told me, “The number of olfactory receptors alone doesn’t directly translate to the overall sensitivity of smell. It’s an oversimplification to assume a linear relationship between receptor count and smell acuity.” - Dan’s Daily
When one can sense so much more in the world than we ever could, how does that world appear to them?
I play music, and for better or for worse, I know I perceive sound differently than some other non-musicians. I can hear some frequencies and how they work together because I’m trained for that. My sense of the world sounds different than another person’s.
How does the world look beyond the margin of our perception?
I’m left with this thought: I’ll never know; and therefore, I cannot discount the way someone else who can see more sees things.
