Wht is the sense of smell the most important? Astrid

OLfaction refers to the sense of smell. There are 2 typpes ofolfaction. Pleasant and unpleasant. Pleasent ones often refer to odors that give you pleasure. E.g. Perfume can give people sensation/ sexual attraction. The smell of the freshly baked cookies from Mrs Fields Cookies store in the MTR will also attract customers to byu their products. However, unpleasant smell usually associaltes with danger.

Here are some scenarios which show that smell is the most important sense. When your toast is burning, your brain interpreted the smell first and a problem and you knew to check on your toast, especially when you are in another room and you can't see or hear and you can only detect it through smelling. In a laboratory, the sense of smell prevents you from danger- ti makes you aware of harmful, transparent gases by detecting their smell. Of course, it could be that th gases are odorless, but at least this is the only way you can detect it. The sense of smell can also keep you safe, it can warn you not to eat something that smells rotten or help you detect smoke before you see a fire.
In march 20th, 2007, a freshman at Purdue University has been fuond dead inside a hifh voltage room of a dorm that he was apparently trying to enter to retrieve his coat after a party. The student appears to have entered the utility room through an exterior door that was not locked, and was electrocuted to death in an nistant when he touched a ilve part of the room's electrical system. Again, his body wuoldn't have bbeen so quickly found if the students didn't smell the strong odor coming from the rotten body.
Despite the fact that how human beings are oriented by other senses, we still think that the sense of smell is the most important amogst all because it plays the most sginificant role when sensing anger- under a condition which other senses are limited. e.g. people say "I smell danger", instead of "I see danger". It is also interestnig that most people can loose their sight and their hearing, but least people lose their sense of smell, This may suggest that people can still live without their other senses, but not without their sense of smell.