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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 Warm Stimuli"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of external warm stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on whether the sensation of warmth is perceived as concentrated in a specific, circumscribed area of the body's surface or as spread broadly and generally across a larger, less defined area of the body's surface. This distinction is based on the spatial distribution of the thermal input and the resulting subjective perception, making the categories mutually exclusive, and together they comprehensively cover all forms of external warm stimulation.
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From: "Awareness of Diffuse External Warmth"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of diffuse external warmth can be fundamentally divided based on whether the warmth is primarily experienced through direct physical contact with or envelopment by a warm external medium or object (e.g., warm air, warm water, heated clothing via conduction/convection) or primarily through the reception of radiant thermal energy from an external source without direct physical contact (e.g., sunlight, heat from a fire). These two categories represent distinct physical modes of heat transfer and sensory interaction, making them mutually exclusive, and together they comprehensively cover all forms of diffuse external warmth perception.
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From: "Awareness of Diffuse External Warmth by Radiation"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of diffuse external warmth by radiation can be fundamentally divided based on whether the warmth is perceived as originating from a specific, identifiable radiating object or direction (e.g., direct sun, a fireplace) or as a general, pervasive warmth arising from the overall radiative state of the surrounding environment where no single source is distinctly localized or foregrounded in perception (e.g., general warmth in a sauna, re-radiation from broadly heated surfaces). These categories are mutually exclusive as an experience's perceived origin is either localized or ambient, and together they comprehensively cover all forms of diffuse external warmth by radiation.
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Topic: "Awareness of Diffuse External Warmth from a Perceived Localized Radiating Source" (W5689)