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Originally Posted by Nerys
I am sorry but anything colder than you can NOT be perceived as warm.
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This is a faulty idea. The concept of hot and cold, warm/cool, is not based on your internal body temperature. The perceptions of these "feelings" is based on whatever climate you are accustomed to, not your physical temperature.
It's why people in FL wear jackets when the temp gets below 80 and people in Alaska are out in shorts in the 60s.
And it varies by seaons. It is completely normal and possible to enter a building in the winter where the interior temperature is regulated to something like 74 degrees and to feel uncomfortably warm. Why is that? Because you grew accustomed to the colder outside temp. You can't make the argument that somehow your core temp dropped below 74 so now you can sense the warm inside air. If that were true, you would be dead and you wouldn't be feeling anyting.
The concept of hot and cold is completely independent to the individual. You are correct that it is relative but it's not based entirely on your core body temperature.