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"CHEMICAL OBJECT REPRESENTATION IN THE FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS"

I'd say, without reading the paper, that seems more like an experiment in psychology than in man's ability to perceive tastes. Can you trick your brain into believing something is something else by making it look like that? Seems like you can.

"A white wine .. colored red.. was described as a red wine.."

Were they wrong?

There's a reason the Stradivarius testers are blindfolded.




Also reminds me of the McGurk effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_effect). If you present a stimuli outside the usual sample space, it's not clear that the responses are "wrong".




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