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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
Humans don't have functional vomeronasal organs through which such pheromones could work. It's not even dubious science, but flat out wrong for baseline humans.
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The whole VNO thing may be a a red herring.
Imagine a TL5 world which has fiction with energy sources which seem to be holding more energy than chemical bonds can possibly hold. Then by the end of TL5 or beginning of TL6 of the world, people start decrying this fiction because obviously the Etheric Shockwave Theory has been conclusively proven to be wrong. Of course they never imagine that Nuclear Physics, not Etheric Shock Theory, are the path to achieving results similar to those in their fiction.
THS biochemistry is TL10, as are their memetics; the fact that the word 'pheromones' has been chosen instead of something more generic like 'aerosol influence supplement', because it forces a setting to conform to a specific way of achieving a result.
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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
The actual rules for memetics are anemic enough to just work as slightly more effective propaganda despite all the fluff dialogue implying creepy mind control. Most people really are easily manipulated in specific ways. It's a drawback of being social creatures.
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Shrug. As if everyday social interactions aren't creepy mind control. I thought you had creepy stories about your brother's charisma as just one example.