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@toadyhawk.eth
mildly mind-blowing fact of the day for you: we don’t actually have the ability to feel temperature with our skin. Instead we feel heat transfer. That’s why when you get in a cold pool, it eventually stops feeling cold; the temperature of your skin and the water has equalized and you no longer feel heat transfer.
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@yulius7602
That’s actually such a cool way to think about it we’re not feeling “cold,” we’re feeling the change in energy. Makes you realize how much of our perception is about contrast, not absolute states. Thanks for the brain snack!
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