Hello, everyone, and welcome to Overtink.

The podcast where two friends love to philosophize.

I'm Professor Ellie Anderson.

And I'm Professor David Peña-Gusman.

And we are here with you today to talk about smell.

This is the fourth episode in our five-part series on The Senses.

And this is actually the only one where we have an interview here on air on the podcast, because

as those of you who are regular overthinkers know, we usually have a guest every few episodes,

every four episodes or so. And we are pairing, however, this series with a bunch of interviews

with experts on our YouTube channel. And so we have an extended version of the interview that

you're going to hear today over on YouTube as well as some interviews with other experts.

So if you like hearing from other experts

directly, aside from just hearing our voices, which, you know, hey, hey, hopefully you like those

too. Then check that out. And so as to not make people wait for our wonderful voices, let's get

into the episode. Okay.

What's so special about smell?

It lets us detect tiny nuances and the materials around us, even the trace of things that are long gone.

Smell has a particular relation between distance and proximity.

And, you know, one way to think about this is how smells really can

seem to be invading your private space when they're particularly strong. Invading, yes.

Like, get it away from me, and you can't. It is just, you know, they're in your nostrils.

And the philosopher Emmanuel Kant had thoughts about this. He says, quote from Kant here,

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