Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.17.68.254-20130907025506/@comment-24267097-20150411023706

Phantomlink959 wrote: Actually, emotions can be determined by smell. when we experience various emotions, the levels of different hormones in or bodies shift significantly, while some can be noticed passively(like sexual arousal. yes, horny is technically an emotion,) others, such as fear, sadness, and happiness are usually overshadowed by the visual signs of the emotion and we tend to ignore those. the source of the smell from emotion related horones is primarily in our sweat and tears, however blood and other bodily fluids can also carry the scent.

source: high school biology class Our ignoring of the rhinochemical nature of the emotions is most likely due to our evolutinary optimizations of our visual senses over our rhinal senses, although the rhinal cavitity may still be capable of detecting emotions, it would most likely come off as a hunch to be confirmed by other senses, because without the ability to articulate what we are detecting, we might sense it but communicating what we are sensing will be ofuscated by the tools available