I am not going to be able to provide you with any proof. My goal had more to do with re-establishing that common sense is a good enough indicator in such a scenario. We can trust that a warning is not a spurious signal (unless one has the issue of spurious signals anyway) and act accordingly. When it comes to life and safety erring on the side of caution would seem to have an obvious evolutionary advantage. The sensation of intense cold when inhaling is enough indication of dangerous conditions to warrant a strong reaction. It isn’t that ice cream will kill you or that the specific cause of the pain is going to hurt you. It comes close enough to a real situation of danger to merit a strong message of warning before things progress any farther. It doesn’t have anything to do with damaging the tissue in the throat, necessarily. It is a built-in warning that comes as the result of thousands of generations of individuals, human and pre-human, suffering near death or death and passing on the knowledge gained through our communal experience as recorded in our DNA. It is a system that is both blunt and nuanced but which creates complexity of results that truly resist complete translation to sensible language. There are fractals at all levels of human behavior and anatomy that record the innumerable experiences of every individual that contributed to the strand. Our inability to understand does not make it any less beautiful or any less functional.
I am sure this doesn’t come close to answering your objection to my original post. Thank you for indulging my loopy thinking.
