system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why do "cold" and "hot" burns feel the same to the touch of human skin?

Burning is typically associated with heat or fire, but at times is also related to damage from extreme cold. What, why and how are the distinctions of extreme temp "burns" decided and what defines a "burn"?
gpt
Because after a certain threshold, only neurons associated with pain are firing. The ones sensing hot and cold become irrelevant. So both sensations just feel like pain. And both hot and cold when extreme can cause tissue to die which may answer you burn question.