Receptors in your skin feel everything – there’s a little computer program with wires that run back to your brain. There’s afferent and efferent nerves that essentially receive and initiate action – so if you touch something too hot you pull your hand away. I learned in paramedic school that we have receptors for temperature but not for “wet” – if you put your hand in water you’re not ”supposed” to feel it’s water – just the temperature
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