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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Humans can’t sense temperature. That is false.
You can prove this at home. Take your socks off in the winter and walk between two different floorings in the same room. For example if you have a carpeted floor next to a tile floor in the same area of a house. The tile floor will feel colder than the carpet even though they are both at the same room temperature.
What you actually sense is the movement of heat energy. And this is how you can sense wetness. Water has a high thermal mass. Energy/heat will always move from high to low. Because water has more thermal mass than in body heat will move towards it when the air is cooler than your body. Making the water feel cold. Or, the heat will move into your body when the air temp is above your body temp.
This is also why humidity has such a huge effect on people.
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