+ Several years ago, a student told me that human skin lacks a single receptor dedicated to sensing wetness, unlike cockroaches and spiders

+ Wetness is not an intrinsic physical property; it is our interpretation of

a set of liquid/surface relationships as well as the interaction between multiple sensory signals

+ Because wetness is not direct sensory perception for humans, we interpret multiple sensory cues (temperature, pressure, and texture) to experience the sensation of wetness

+ Wetness relies on multisensory integration, or the nervous system’s combination of information from different senses to build a unified understanding of the environment

+ In neuroscience, this is called synthetic perception, or a perception that isn’t detected by a single type of receptor, but instead constructed in the brain from multiple sensory experiences.

+ How might we describe an ethos of wettability, or our desire to bring our body in full contact with shifting systems and ideas?

+ If I seek to make wet work, maybe I desire to spill or leak onto the viewer; perhaps I want them to spill onto me?

+ If I am a wettable person, perhaps that means:

• I welcome opportunities to draw closer to uncertainty, so that I develop a higher threshold for perpetual moisture
  
  
• I seek to experience the world through many sensory modalities, cognitive states (mystical, synesthesia), metaperception, and related phenomena.