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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: "Cognitive Sphere"
Split Justification: Cognition operates via deliberate, logical steps (**Analytical Processing**) and faster, intuitive pattern-matching (**Intuitive/Associative Processing**). (Ref: Dual Process Theory)
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From: "Intuitive/Associative Processing"
Split Justification: Intuitive/associative processing fundamentally operates in two distinct, yet complementary, modes: either by rapidly identifying and utilizing pre-existing patterns and associations (often automatically and implicitly), or by forming new, non-obvious connections that lead to emergent insights and novel ideas. These two categories comprehensively cover the scope of how this cognitive function processes information.
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From: "Pattern Matching & Implicit Activation"
Split Justification: ** This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns based on direct sensory input (e.g., recognizing faces, sounds, immediate environmental threats) from the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns based on abstract meaning, categories, semantic knowledge, and higher-level schema (e.g., understanding language, social cues, expert intuition). These two categories delineate distinct levels of information abstraction in pattern processing, comprehensively covering the scope of how pre-existing patterns are implicitly identified and utilized.
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From: "Perceptual Pattern Matching & Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns derived from external sensory input (e.g., visual scenes, sounds, tactile sensations from the environment) from those derived from internal bodily sensations (e.g., proprioception, interoception, vestibular sense). These two categories comprehensively cover all sources of direct sensory input for pattern processing.
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From: "Exteroceptive Pattern Matching & Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns derived from senses that perceive stimuli at a distance (e.g., vision, audition for environmental scanning and distant object recognition) from those that require direct physical contact or very close proximity (e.g., touch, taste, smell for immediate object properties and direct interaction). These two categories comprehensively cover all sources of exteroceptive sensory input by distinguishing between information gathered about the broader, remote environment and information gathered through immediate, close-range interaction with objects or substances.
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From: "Proximal Exteroceptive Pattern Matching & Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns derived from proximal senses that detect chemical stimuli (e.g., taste, smell for identifying substances or their presence) from those that detect physical and mechanical stimuli (e.g., touch for identifying textures, pressure, temperature, or physical contact). These two categories comprehensively cover all forms of proximal exteroceptive pattern processing.
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From: "Somatosensory Proximal Pattern Matching & Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns derived from mechanical stimuli (e.g., pressure, texture, vibration, physical contact, shape recognition through touch) from those derived from thermal or potentially harmful (pain) stimuli that indicate temperature changes or tissue damage. These two categories comprehensively cover all forms of somatosensory proximal pattern processing by distinguishing patterns related to physical contact properties from those related to temperature and threat.
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From: "Thermosensory & Nociceptive Proximal Pattern Matching & Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns derived from thermal stimuli (e.g., recognizing specific temperatures like 'warm', 'cold', 'hot') from those derived from stimuli indicating actual or potential tissue damage, which elicits pain (e.g., recognizing patterns of 'stinging', 'burning', 'aching'). These two categories represent distinct sensory modalities with different primary informational goals: assessing thermal state versus detecting threat and harm, comprehensively covering the scope of thermosensory and nociceptive pattern processing.
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From: "Thermosensory Proximal Pattern Matching & Activation"
Split Justification: ** This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns derived from thermal stimuli perceived as warm or hot from those derived from thermal stimuli perceived as cool or cold. These two categories represent the fundamental, opposing perceptual qualities of thermal sensation, mediated by distinct sets of thermoreceptors, and comprehensively cover the scope of thermosensory pattern processing.
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From: "Coolness/Cold Proximal Pattern Matching & Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns derived from thermal stimuli perceived as 'cool' (i.e., moderately below body temperature, often associated with comfort or mild sensation) from those perceived as 'cold' (i.e., significantly below body temperature, often associated with discomfort, aversion, or requiring a physiological response). These two categories represent distinct qualitative perceptual ranges within the cool-to-cold spectrum, mediated by different patterns of neural activation and implicit associative networks, comprehensively covering the scope of coolness/cold pattern processing.
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Topic: "Coolness Proximal Pattern Matching & Activation" (W5571)