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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 Mechanical Contact"
Split Justification: All conscious experiences of external mechanical contact can be fundamentally distinguished by whether the mechanical force or deformation is relatively constant and steady over the period of perception (e.g., sustained pressure, an object resting on the skin), or if it involves variability, movement, or change in intensity, frequency, or location over time (e.g., vibration, brushing, light taps, friction). These categories are mutually exclusive, as an external mechanical contact is either perceived as steady or as changing, and together they comprehensively cover all forms of awareness of external mechanical contact.
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From: "Awareness of Steady External Mechanical Contact"
Split Justification: All conscious experiences of steady external mechanical contact are fundamentally distinguished by whether the contact is perceived as occurring at a distinct, confined point or very small area on the body's surface, or as being spread across a larger, more diffuse region. This dichotomy precisely categorizes the perceived spatial extent of the steady external mechanical interaction, making the categories mutually exclusive, and comprehensively exhaustive as all such experiences fall into one of these two fundamental spatial configurations.
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From: "Awareness of Distributed Steady External Mechanical Contact"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of distributed steady external mechanical contact can be fundamentally distinguished based on its primary perceived role relative to the body: either providing a stable base or upward force that bears the body's weight or actively resists its movement (supportive contact), or applying an inward, encompassing, or constricting pressure to the body's surface, independent of providing a primary resting base (compressive or enveloping contact). These two categories are mutually exclusive as an experience's primary perceived role is distinct, and comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of distributed steady external mechanical contact are primarily experienced in one of these two fundamental ways.
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From: "Awareness of Distributed Steady External Supportive Contact"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of distributed steady external supportive contact can be fundamentally distinguished by the primary nature of the force being countered and the primary purpose of the support. Experiences either involve the contact primarily counteracting gravitational forces to bear the body's weight or prevent downward movement (gravitational load bearing), or they involve the contact primarily resisting non-gravitational external forces or self-initiated movements to provide stability or prevent displacement in planes other than the primary gravitational vector (non-gravitational resistive stabilization). This distinction directly reflects the two facets of "supportive contact" as previously defined, making the categories mutually exclusive in their primary function and comprehensively exhaustive for all such experiences.
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From: "Awareness of Distributed Steady External Non-Gravitational Resistive Stabilization"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of distributed steady external non-gravitational resistive stabilization can be fundamentally distinguished by whether the contact primarily counters non-gravitational forces originating from the external environment that would otherwise cause displacement or instability (external disruptive forces), or if it primarily provides resistance and stability against the body's own self-generated movements or inherent tendencies towards imbalance (internal instability). This dichotomy precisely differentiates the primary source of the destabilizing influence, making the categories mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive for all such experiences.
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From: "Awareness of Stabilization Against External Disruptive Forces"
Split Justification: ** All external disruptive forces, in terms of their impact on the body's stability, primarily tend to cause either a change in the body's position in space (translational displacement) or a change in its orientation (rotational displacement). Consequently, conscious awareness of stabilization against these forces fundamentally distinguishes between efforts to resist linear movement versus efforts to resist angular movement, making these categories mutually exclusive in their primary focus and comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of displacement can be decomposed into these two fundamental types of motion.
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Topic: "Awareness of Stabilization Against External Forces Causing Rotational Displacement" (W6809)