Friday, September 10, 2021

Darwin and Kant looked down their noses on smell

Charles Darwin believed that smell to be “of extremely slight service” to humans and Immanuel Kant regarded it as “most dispensable" of the senses.

It’s doubtful if people who have suffered from long Covid would be impressed with Darwin’s and Kant’s views on smell.

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