![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Writer's Block: The state of perception
Aug. 28th, 2011 01:16 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Oh, this is easy: taste. We don't really use our taste for much, just eating, and much of what we perceive as "taste" is actually scent anyway. (Surely you've observed that when your nose is stuffed, food tastes differently?). The act of eating would still be quite enjoyable through scent and touch (the texture of the food) alone. And if the only adaptation I'd have to make to my life would be not enjoying food quite as much as I used to, I think I'd be okay.
Losing touch would be outright dangerous-- people who cannot detect temperature or pain usually die very young, or shortly after they develop the problem-- and I'm not willing to give up my sense of sight or sound by choice, because too much of what I enjoy involves one or both of them. And the sense of smell has more uses than the sense of taste, including some regarding personal safety, like smelling gas or smoke.
Oh, this is easy: taste. We don't really use our taste for much, just eating, and much of what we perceive as "taste" is actually scent anyway. (Surely you've observed that when your nose is stuffed, food tastes differently?). The act of eating would still be quite enjoyable through scent and touch (the texture of the food) alone. And if the only adaptation I'd have to make to my life would be not enjoying food quite as much as I used to, I think I'd be okay.
Losing touch would be outright dangerous-- people who cannot detect temperature or pain usually die very young, or shortly after they develop the problem-- and I'm not willing to give up my sense of sight or sound by choice, because too much of what I enjoy involves one or both of them. And the sense of smell has more uses than the sense of taste, including some regarding personal safety, like smelling gas or smoke.
