WEll, first off, I am not talking about the creation of the quale. I am talking about the physical effect on the taste bud. Sodium nor Chloride cause the taste but relevantly do not start the mechanism that leads to quales later on. Neither sodium nor chlorine gas will have trigger the taste bud response salt does. We don't have to care about later results in the brain. We are talking about a purely physical, non-quale effect on the taste buds, milliseconds before any quales are created. Sodium would burn the taste bud into dead matter. Likely Chloride would do the same. It is a completely different substance in terms of properties. It is edible. Can be used in the body for all sorts of functions that are absolutely not possible with Na or CL, an extremely volitile metal and a poison gas (at body temperatures). It forms stable crystals. When you add salt or sodium or chlorine to water you get different PH reactions. Physical results which in turn would have different results on things in the water. Salt making no change in the ph, but the other two, yes, changing the ph.
NaCl
Melting point 800.8° C (1,473.4° F)
Boiling point 1,465°C (2,669° F)
Hardness (Moh's Scale) 2.5
Critical humidity at 20 °C, (68° F) 75.3%
It's parts do not have the same numbers.
Well, I can't argue with that. Since your atoms and cells can then communicate with you and me in English, could you link to some evidence they have these abilities. Ask them to participate. It must be hard to sleep. Given they can speak.No.