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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 Thermal, Chemical, and Noxious Stimuli"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of external thermal, chemical, and noxious stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on whether the stimulus's primary characteristic is its capacity to cause pain, discomfort, or potential harm (noxious) or if it primarily conveys information about temperature or chemical presence without being noxious. This distinction provides two mutually exclusive categories based on the presence or absence of a noxious component in the stimulus's effect, and together they comprehensively cover all forms of external thermal, chemical, and noxious stimulation.
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From: "Awareness of External Thermal and Non-Noxious Chemical Stimuli"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of external thermal and non-noxious chemical stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on whether the stimulus is primarily conveying information about temperature (thermal) or about chemical presence and properties. These represent distinct physical properties and sensory modalities operating via different physiological pathways, making them mutually exclusive. Together, they comprehensively cover the entire scope of stimuli described by the parent node.
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From: "Awareness of External Thermal Stimuli"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of external thermal stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on whether the stimulus generates a sensation of warmth or heat, or a sensation of coolness or coldness. These represent distinct sensory qualities mediated by different physiological receptor systems, making them mutually exclusive, and together they comprehensively cover the entire range of non-noxious external temperature perception.
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From: "Awareness of External Cold Stimuli"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of external cold stimuli, which by derivation are non-noxious, can be fundamentally divided based on the subjective intensity and qualitative experience of the sensation: whether it is perceived as a milder, often neutral or pleasant "coolness," or as a more distinct, impactful, and potentially discomforting "pronounced coldness." These two categories are mutually exclusive in their primary subjective perception of intensity and quality, and together they comprehensively cover the entire spectrum of non-noxious external cold experiences.
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From: "Awareness of External Coolness"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of external coolness, which is inherently a milder and often pleasant form of cold, can be fundamentally divided based on the subjective intensity within that mild range. Some experiences of coolness are barely perceptible or faint ("subtle"), while others are clearly felt but still remain within the non-noxious, often pleasant scope of coolness, not crossing into "pronounced coldness" ("distinct"). This dichotomy continues the focus on subjective intensity and qualitative experience, consistent with preceding splits, providing two mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive categories for the perception of external coolness.
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From: "Awareness of Distinct External Coolness"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of distinct external coolness can be fundamentally divided based on whether the sensation is perceived as spatially confined to a specific, circumscribed area of the body or as spread across a wider, less defined region. These two categories are mutually exclusive as they describe distinct spatial characteristics of the perception, and together they comprehensively cover all forms of distinct external coolness.
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Topic: "Awareness of Localized Distinct External Coolness" (W5433)