just because it can tell the difference doesn't mean you can necessarily do anything with that information. sometimes that train, she comes quickly.

I was thinking exactly this while reading the meme. Our first experiences with the world are touching things and then putting them in our mouths. We build a cognitive database of touch- and taste-based sensory data from day one. Of course that’s going to inform our thoughts later on!

Oh, my stars! Does that mean.... Oh, goodness 🫢

Most definitely as a baby or toddler, yes you have. And if it was not asphalt it was similar stuff like walls and such.

As soon as one has enough data and a brain developed enough one absolutely can tell the feel and taste of stuff even if not tested.

Bonus points if your a parent. Toddlers WILL force stuff in your mouth and you WILL have the chance to test the theories.

Oh, these kids will make their experiences whatsoever. Even helicopter parents need to do stuff from time to time and kids somehow KNOW if they are not watched, ever for a second.
It might take longer to make all the experience one needs, but they will get them one way or another.

Ok, fair enough.

Only one way to find out. Do it... For science!

My fingers also know.

As does my pp.

It's the brain.

The same damaged brain that can't tell how it will feel doing something it enjoys.

That a fuck.

Asphalt tastes like gummy bears for a second.

The table leg feels like kiki and the football feels like bouba. Easy

You test them? Your parties must be unsettling for new friends!

Interesting. Yes.

If you feel this as a loss, I'm sure that if you let this be known widely enough in your friend group, someone will offer to help you out with the missing sensory data.

And if not, there's definitely an app for that. Just put that on your profile.

I assume it works best when you see the things in front of you at least once, rather than just images, and I've never seen lava in real life

My tongue didn’t account for the taste when it longed for the anus last night.

That's due to the anal sampling reflex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectoanal_inhibitory_reflex

The silicone type of lint roller would probably feel like an unusually firm silicone dildo and the sticky tape type would probably feel slippery like postage stamp and taste with that sickly sweet chemical adhesive taste

There’s no accounting for taste, famously

There’s an indie game that just came out called Dragon Detective, where investigation is about using the five senses, plus the sixth sense of magic.

You would think that Taste would be a fringe-use sense that barely comes up, but no, this dragon really does lick the whole crime scene to judge the makeup of an object.

“S-Stop! Please stop licking the walls!!”