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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: "Autonomic & Unconscious Somatic Processes"
Split Justification: ** All unconscious somatic processes are fundamentally regulated through either the dedicated neural pathways of the autonomic nervous system or through the intrinsic, self-regulating mechanisms of other physiological systems (e.g., endocrine, immune, cellular, local tissue systems). These two categories comprehensively cover all autonomous and unconscious bodily functions and are mutually exclusive in their primary regulatory mechanism.
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From: "Non-Neural Autonomous Physiological Processes"
Split Justification: Non-neural autonomous physiological processes can be fundamentally divided based on the scale and transport mechanism of their primary regulatory signals. One category encompasses regulation achieved through chemical messengers (such as hormones, circulating cytokines, or antibodies) that are transported via body fluids (blood, lymph, interstitial fluid) to exert widespread or distant effects throughout the organism. The other category comprises processes that are intrinsic to the cell or local tissue itself, relying on internal cellular mechanisms (e.g., metabolism, gene expression), direct physical or chemical responses within the immediate tissue environment, or paracrine/autocrine signaling confined to the immediate vicinity, without requiring systemic transport for their primary regulatory action. These two categories are mutually exclusive, as a regulatory mechanism either relies on systemic transport for its primary action or it does not, and together they comprehensively cover all non-neural autonomous physiological processes.
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From: "Systemic Humoral Regulation"
Split Justification: Systemic humoral regulation is fundamentally mediated by either hormones, which are chemical messengers predominantly secreted by endocrine glands to regulate diverse physiological processes like metabolism, growth, and reproduction; or by immune factors (such as cytokines and antibodies), which are chemical messengers primarily produced by immune cells to coordinate defense, inflammation, and immune surveillance. These two categories represent distinct yet comprehensive regulatory systems, ensuring that all systemic, non-neural chemical signaling is covered, with their primary origins and functional domains being mutually exclusive.
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From: "Endocrine Hormonal Regulation"
Split Justification: Endocrine hormonal regulation fundamentally serves one of two overarching purposes: either to maintain the internal physiological environment within a stable dynamic range and enable acute adaptations to immediate conditions (homeostatic maintenance), or to drive the orchestrated, often irreversible, changes associated with growth, development, sexual maturation, and reproduction throughout the organism's life cycle (developmental and reproductive progression). These two categories represent distinct and comprehensively exhaustive goals for all endocrine signaling, with any specific regulatory process falling primarily into one domain, ensuring mutual exclusivity.
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From: "Hormonal Regulation for Developmental and Reproductive Progression"
Split Justification: ** Hormonal regulation for developmental and reproductive progression fundamentally serves one of two distinct purposes: either to drive the orchestrated changes that lead to the maturation and functional development of the individual organism's own body over its lifespan (including growth, differentiation, and the development of adult characteristics), or to specifically govern the processes directly involved in the creation and support of new organisms (such as gamete production, sexual cycles, pregnancy, and lactation). These two categories represent mutually exclusive primary goals for endocrine signaling in progression, and together they comprehensively cover all aspects of an organism's developmental and reproductive hormonal trajectory.
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From: "Hormonal Regulation of Procreative Functions"
Split Justification: Hormonal regulation of procreative functions fundamentally divides into two distinct phases: the initial processes focused on the generation and union of gametes to form a new organism, and the subsequent processes focused on sustaining and nurturing that developing organism through gestation and early post-natal life. These two categories are mutually exclusive, as any given hormonal pathway primarily governs either the formation and fusion of gametes (including processes within sexual cycles that facilitate this) or the subsequent physiological support for the conceptus, and together they comprehensively cover all aspects of creating and supporting new organisms.
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From: "Hormonal Regulation of Gestation and Lactation"
Split Justification: ** Hormonal regulation for sustaining and nurturing a developing organism fundamentally divides into processes focused on maintaining its growth and development within the maternal body and facilitating its passage into the external world (intrauterine nurturing and parturition), and processes focused on providing post-natal nutritional support through milk synthesis and delivery (post-natal lactational nurturing). These two categories represent distinct physiological phases and primary mechanisms for offspring support, are mutually exclusive in their direct target systems and temporal focus, and together comprehensively cover all aspects of hormonal regulation during gestation and lactation.
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From: "Hormonal Regulation of Intrauterine Nurturing and Parturition"
Split Justification: Hormonal regulation for intrauterine nurturing and parturition fundamentally divides into mechanisms primarily responsible for sustaining the pregnancy and supporting the growth and development of the fetus within the maternal body, and distinct mechanisms that actively initiate, progress, and execute the process of birth. These two categories represent sequential and functionally distinct phases of the pregnancy trajectory, with specific hormonal orchestrations for each, ensuring they are mutually exclusive in their primary physiological objective and comprehensively cover all hormonal aspects of this stage.
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From: "Hormonal Regulation of Labor and Parturition"
Split Justification: The hormonal regulation of labor and parturition fundamentally divides into mechanisms that trigger the transition from uterine quiescence to active labor, and distinct mechanisms that sustain, intensify, and coordinate the uterine contractions and other physiological changes necessary for the ongoing process of active labor and the expulsion of the fetus and placenta. These two categories represent sequential yet functionally distinct phases of birth, each with specific hormonal orchestrations, ensuring they are mutually exclusive in their primary physiological objective and comprehensively cover all hormonal aspects of this stage.
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Topic: "Hormonal Regulation of Parturition Initiation" (W5581)