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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 Active External Bodily Engagement"
Split Justification: Active external bodily engagement can be fundamentally divided based on whether the conscious somatic experience primarily concerns the body's self-initiated movement through space and its dynamic orientation within the broader environment, or whether it primarily concerns the body's direct, focused interaction with and manipulation of specific external objects or surfaces. These two domains are mutually exclusive as the primary locus of active somatic awareness is either the body's global relationship to its environment or its localized interaction with discrete external entities. Together, they comprehensively cover all forms of awareness of active external bodily engagement.
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From: "Awareness of Active Object and Surface Manipulation"
Split Justification: All conscious somatic experiences of actively manipulating objects and surfaces can be fundamentally divided based on whether the primary conscious awareness of the manipulation is directed towards gathering sensory information about the object's inherent properties (e.g., feeling its texture, shape, temperature, weight) or towards performing an action to achieve a specific external outcome or effect a change in the object or environment (e.g., writing, building, lifting, operating tools). These two categories are mutually exclusive, as the predominant purpose of the active somatic engagement at any given moment aligns with either exploring for information or acting for a goal, and together they comprehensively cover the entire scope of awareness of active object and surface manipulation.
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From: "Awareness of Active Manipulation for Sensory Exploration"
Split Justification: ** All conscious somatic experiences of actively manipulating objects and surfaces for sensory exploration can be fundamentally divided based on whether the primary conscious awareness is directed towards gathering sensory information about the object's inherent properties that are perceived at its direct interface or superficial layer (e.g., texture, temperature, localized pressure, vibration), or towards properties that describe its overall structural, spatial, or material characteristics, often requiring bodily movement, grasp, and integration of sensory inputs (e.g., shape, size, weight, rigidity, contours, spatial orientation). This dichotomy is mutually exclusive as the primary informational focus of the active manipulation aligns with either surface qualities or integrated structural qualities, and comprehensively exhaustive as all inherent object properties explored through active manipulation fall into one of these two fundamental categories of haptic information.
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From: "Awareness of Active Manipulation for Object-Structural Haptic Qualities"
Split Justification: All conscious somatic experiences of actively manipulating objects to explore their structural haptic qualities can be fundamentally divided based on whether the primary awareness is directed towards understanding the object's geometric arrangement, shape, dimensions, and spatial relationship to itself or its environment (e.g., shape, size, contours, spatial orientation), or towards understanding its intrinsic physical composition, density, and gravitational attributes (e.g., weight, rigidity, material consistency). These two categories are mutually exclusive, as the primary informational focus is either on the object's spatial layout or its physical substance, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all aspects of object-structural haptic qualities.
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From: "Awareness of Haptic Exploration of Object Material and Mass Properties"
Split Justification: All conscious somatic experiences of actively manipulating objects to explore their material and mass properties can be fundamentally divided based on whether the primary awareness is directed towards understanding the object's internal structure and how it responds to applied forces (e.g., its rigidity, deformability, elasticity, viscosity, or internal cohesion), or towards understanding its fundamental quantity of matter and its interaction with gravity (e.g., its weight, mass, or perceived density through lifting and movement). These two categories are mutually exclusive, as the primary informational focus is either on the object's resistance to deformation and internal makeup, or on its inertial and gravitational attributes, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all aspects of an object's material and mass properties.
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From: "Awareness of Object's Mechanical Properties and Cohesion"
Split Justification: ** All conscious somatic experiences of actively manipulating objects to explore their mechanical properties and cohesion can be fundamentally divided based on whether the primary awareness is directed towards understanding the object's capacity to resist deformation or to return to its original shape (e.g., its rigidity, stiffness, elasticity), or towards understanding its tendency to undergo permanent deformation, flow under stress, or ultimately fracture (e.g., its plasticity, deformability, viscosity, or internal cohesive strength). These two categories are mutually exclusive as they distinguish between reversible/resistive responses and irreversible changes/failure, and comprehensively exhaustive as they cover all fundamental aspects of an object's mechanical properties and internal cohesion explored through active manipulation.
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From: "Awareness of Object's Elasticity and Rigidity"
Split Justification: All conscious somatic experiences of actively manipulating objects to explore their elasticity and rigidity can be fundamentally divided based on whether the primary awareness is directed towards understanding the object's capacity to resist an applied force and prevent deformation (e.g., its stiffness, hardness, or immovability), or towards understanding its capacity to return to its original shape after an applied force has caused deformation and then been removed (e.g., its springiness, resilience, or ability to regain form). These two categories are mutually exclusive, as one focuses on preventing shape change and the other on reversing it, and an object can exhibit one without the other (e.g., a brittle material can be highly resistant but not reversibly elastic). Together, they comprehensively cover all aspects of an object's elasticity and rigidity perceived through active manipulation.
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Topic: "Awareness of Reversible Shape Recovery" (W6569)