From my understanding, we’re able to feel the temperature, texture and pressure of water. And if we’re able to feel all that, what more else is there? What defines wetness and what should it feel like?
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It’s actually a lie that humans can’t sense wetness. It relies on an unjustified assumption that only direct nerve input is a “sense.” That’s not how the human sensory network works.
We know what wet feels like because we know the effect that water has on our skin. We feel the transfer of heat and feel the water move on our skin. We’re wired to put that together into a repeatable experience called “wet.”
We may not have nerve endings specifically for that but why do we need to? Some nerve endings give us part of the picture, some gives others, and your brain puts it together. Which is exactly how the human sensory system works.
In other words we CAN sense wetness. Your body and brain have all the sensory input they need to put 2 and 2 together into a repeatable experience that can be defined and described between humans as “wet.” Two humans can be talking and one says “wet” and the other knows what that feels like. It’s just not all coming from 1 source which is a ridiculous and irrelevant requirement.
By the same argument we don’t now what pizza tastes like because different receptors pick up different parts of the sensory experience and the brain puts it all together rather than having a specific “pizza tasting nerve ending.” Ridiculous argument.
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