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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 Non-Noxious Chemical Stimuli"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of external non-noxious chemical stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on whether the chemicals are detected as airborne volatile compounds (olfaction/smell) or as soluble compounds primarily within the mouth (gustation/taste). These two sensory modalities utilize distinct receptor systems, sensory organs, and neural pathways, making them mutually exclusive. Together, they comprehensively cover the entire range of conscious awareness of external non-noxious chemical stimuli.
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From: "Awareness of External Non-Noxious Gustatory Stimuli"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of external non-noxious gustatory stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on the primary molecular mechanism of their transduction at the taste receptor cells. Some taste qualities (e.g., salty, sour) are primarily mediated by direct interaction with ion channels, while others (e.g., sweet, bitter, umami) are primarily mediated by G-protein coupled receptor pathways. These represent distinct physiological pathways for chemical detection, making the categories mutually exclusive, and together they comprehensively cover the known basic taste modalities of non-noxious chemical stimuli.
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From: "Awareness of Gustatory Stimuli Transduced by G-Protein Coupled Receptors"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of gustatory stimuli transduced by G-protein coupled receptors can be fundamentally divided based on the primary hedonic valence and associated evolutionary function they evoke. Some tastes primarily signal caloric or protein-rich sources (e.g., sweet, umami), leading to pleasurable and rewarding sensations that encourage intake. Others primarily signal potential toxins or harmful substances (e.g., bitter), leading to aversive and warning sensations that encourage avoidance. These represent distinct fundamental processing pathways and behavioral responses, making the categories mutually exclusive in their primary subjective impact, and together they comprehensively cover all known GPCR-mediated gustatory experiences.
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From: "Awareness of Gustatory Stimuli Transduced by G-Protein Coupled Receptors Eliciting an Aversive Response"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of gustatory stimuli transduced by G-protein coupled receptors eliciting an aversive response can be fundamentally divided based on whether the stimulus originates from naturally occurring compounds that have primarily shaped human evolutionary responses due to their potential toxicity or inherent unpleasantness (e.g., plant alkaloids, naturally occurring defensive compounds), or whether the stimulus originates from human-made synthetic compounds or novel processed substances that elicit an aversive taste but often lack direct evolutionary parallels as a natural threat (e.g., pharmaceuticals, artificial bitterants, industrial byproducts). This distinction is mutually exclusive as a compound's primary source is either natural and evolutionarily relevant or synthetic/novel, and comprehensively exhaustive for all such aversive gustatory stimuli, with implications for adaptation and interaction with the modern environment.
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Topic: "Awareness of Aversive Gustatory Stimuli of Natural Origin" (W6073)