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From: "Human Potential & Development."
Split Justification: Development fundamentally involves both our inner landscape (**Internal World**) and our interaction with everything outside us (**External World**). (Ref: Subject-Object Distinction)..
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From: "Internal World (The Self)"
Split Justification: The Internal World involves both mental processes (**Cognitive Sphere**) and physical experiences (**Somatic Sphere**). (Ref: Mind-Body Distinction)
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From: "Somatic Sphere"
Split Justification: The Somatic Sphere encompasses all physical aspects of the self. These can be fundamentally divided based on whether they are directly accessible to conscious awareness and subjective experience (e.g., pain, touch, proprioception) or whether they operate autonomously and beneath the threshold of conscious perception (e.g., heart rate, digestion, cellular metabolism). Every bodily sensation, state, or process falls into one of these two categories, making them mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Conscious Somatic Experience"
Split Justification: Conscious somatic experiences can be fundamentally divided based on whether their primary focus is on the body's internal condition, physiological state, or spatial configuration (e.g., hunger, proprioception, pain from an organ, fatigue) or whether they are primarily concerned with the body's interaction, contact, or perception of stimuli from the external environment (e.g., touch, temperature, pressure, pain from an external source). These two categories are mutually exclusive as an experience's primary referent is either internal or external to the body's boundary, and comprehensively exhaustive as all conscious somatic experiences fall into one of these two fundamental domains.
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From: "Awareness of External Bodily Interactions"
Split Justification: ** All conscious somatic experiences focused on external interactions can be fundamentally categorized by whether the body is actively initiating and controlling the interaction with the environment (e.g., touching, grasping, applying pressure, manipulating objects) or whether it is passively receiving stimuli or impacts from the external environment (e.g., being touched, feeling ambient temperature, experiencing external pressure or impact). This distinction precisely separates experiences by the primary locus of agency in the interaction, making the categories mutually exclusive, and together they cover the entire scope of awareness of external bodily interactions, thus being comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Awareness of Passive External Bodily Reception"
Split Justification: All conscious experiences of passive external bodily reception can be fundamentally divided based on whether they arise from direct physical forces causing deformation of the body's surface (e.g., touch, pressure, vibration) or from environmental properties (temperature, chemical presence) and potentially harmful stimuli (pain from external sources, regardless of its primary cause). This creates two categories that are mutually exclusive in their primary sensory modality and comprehensively exhaustive for all such passive receptions.
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From: "Awareness of External Mechanical Contact"
Split Justification: All conscious experiences of external mechanical contact can be fundamentally distinguished by whether the mechanical force or deformation is relatively constant and steady over the period of perception (e.g., sustained pressure, an object resting on the skin), or if it involves variability, movement, or change in intensity, frequency, or location over time (e.g., vibration, brushing, light taps, friction). These categories are mutually exclusive, as an external mechanical contact is either perceived as steady or as changing, and together they comprehensively cover all forms of awareness of external mechanical contact.
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From: "Awareness of Steady External Mechanical Contact"
Split Justification: All conscious experiences of steady external mechanical contact are fundamentally distinguished by whether the contact is perceived as occurring at a distinct, confined point or very small area on the body's surface, or as being spread across a larger, more diffuse region. This dichotomy precisely categorizes the perceived spatial extent of the steady external mechanical interaction, making the categories mutually exclusive, and comprehensively exhaustive as all such experiences fall into one of these two fundamental spatial configurations.
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From: "Awareness of Distributed Steady External Mechanical Contact"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of distributed steady external mechanical contact can be fundamentally distinguished based on its primary perceived role relative to the body: either providing a stable base or upward force that bears the body's weight or actively resists its movement (supportive contact), or applying an inward, encompassing, or constricting pressure to the body's surface, independent of providing a primary resting base (compressive or enveloping contact). These two categories are mutually exclusive as an experience's primary perceived role is distinct, and comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of distributed steady external mechanical contact are primarily experienced in one of these two fundamental ways.
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From: "Awareness of Distributed Steady External Supportive Contact"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of distributed steady external supportive contact can be fundamentally distinguished by the primary nature of the force being countered and the primary purpose of the support. Experiences either involve the contact primarily counteracting gravitational forces to bear the body's weight or prevent downward movement (gravitational load bearing), or they involve the contact primarily resisting non-gravitational external forces or self-initiated movements to provide stability or prevent displacement in planes other than the primary gravitational vector (non-gravitational resistive stabilization). This distinction directly reflects the two facets of "supportive contact" as previously defined, making the categories mutually exclusive in their primary function and comprehensively exhaustive for all such experiences.
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From: "Awareness of Distributed Steady External Gravitational Load Bearing"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of distributed steady external gravitational load bearing can be fundamentally distinguished by whether the gravitational load being experienced originates primarily from the body's own mass (e.g., standing, sitting, lying down) or primarily from the mass of an external object or substance that the body is supporting (e.g., carrying a backpack, wearing heavy clothes, being covered by a weighted blanket). These categories are mutually exclusive as the primary source of the gravitational force causing the sensation is distinct, and comprehensively exhaustive as all such load-bearing experiences must arise from one of these two fundamental sources.
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From: "Awareness of Distributed Steady External Bearing of External Object's Gravitational Load"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of distributed steady external bearing of an external object's gravitational load can be fundamentally distinguished based on whether the external object's mass is actively integrated into the body's posture and movement, requiring sustained muscular effort to carry, hold, or wear it (e.g., a backpack, a child held in arms), or if the object or substance is passively resting upon or enveloping the body, exerting gravitational pressure without requiring such active integration into the body's dynamic equilibrium (e.g., a weighted blanket, submersion in water). These two categories are mutually exclusive as an experience's primary mode of interaction is either active integration or passive reception, and comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of bearing an external object's gravitational load will fall into one of these two fundamental types of bodily engagement.
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Topic: "Awareness of Gravitational Load from Actively Carried or Worn Objects" (W5273)