Hi! Unsure if someone's asked this before but here goes! When it comes to processing communication, would you say the macrovolutes process language "linearly" like how humans do? By "linearly" I mean step-by-step; the mention of waiting for one macrovolute to comprehend a paragraph before releasing another one into the air gives me the impression that, while pheromone-language as a medium three-dimensional, they way macrovolutes process language is very similar to humans. Is that the case here?
I actually based it on the way I read! Instead of reading one word at a time, I kind of take a snapshot of a paragraph in fragments at a time, piecing together words from all across the paragraph simultaneously. I only get a partial picture at a time, so I have to do it multiple times to get a nearly full picture. I often miss the first and last sentences, though.
Think of it like reading the word "dog" versus looking at a picture of a dog. You might need some time to register all the details in an image, but you're still not scanning through a sequence one element at a time in a specific order, i.e. going through each pixel in order from the top left like a computer.
(By the way--very appropriate username for a smell-based ask!)