Why did the room temperature water feel warm

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Why did the room temperature water feel warm when your finger was cold and then it felt cold when your finger was warm?

thermoreceptors can only detect slight temperature differences

thermoreceptors do not register temperature, merely heat flow

the thermoreceptors in your finger are not very accurate, as they are not critical to the function of the body

thermoreceptors are only good at detecting painful (or potentially harmful) temperatures and therefore are not accurate for room temperature

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