1
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)..
2
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)
3
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.
4
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.
5
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.
6
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.
7
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.
8
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.
9
From: "Awareness of Localized Steady External Mechanical Contact"
Split Justification: ** All conscious experiences of localized steady external mechanical contact are fundamentally distinguished by whether the mechanical force applied is primarily perpendicular to the body's surface, causing indentation (normal pressure), or primarily parallel to the body's surface, causing distortion or stretching of the skin (tangential shear). These two categories are mutually exclusive as a steady localized force is either perceived as acting predominantly normally or tangentially to the surface, and they are comprehensively exhaustive as all mechanical forces on a surface can be decomposed into these two fundamental components.
10
From: "Awareness of Localized Steady Tangential Shear"
Split Justification: All conscious experiences of localized steady tangential shear fundamentally involve the distortion or stretching of the skin. This deformation can be precisely categorized as either primarily linear, where the skin is steadily pulled or stretched along a translational path, or primarily torsional, where the skin is steadily twisted around an axis perpendicular to the surface at the point of contact. These two forms represent the fundamental kinematic modes of tangential deformation, making them mutually exclusive in their primary perceived effect and comprehensively exhaustive in describing all forms of localized steady tangential shear.
11
From: "Awareness of Localized Steady Torsional Shear"
Split Justification: All conscious experiences of localized steady torsional shear can be fundamentally distinguished by the perceived direction of the twisting force or deformation on the body's surface, which can be either clockwise or counter-clockwise relative to the perceived point of contact. These two directions are mutually exclusive for a single perceived twisting action, and together they comprehensively describe all possible steady torsional movements at a localized point.
12
From: "Awareness of Localized Steady Clockwise Torsional Shear"
Split Justification: ** All conscious experiences of localized steady clockwise torsional shear can be fundamentally distinguished by whether the perceived mechanical deformation is solely tactile or proprioceptive (non-noxious), or if it elicits a sensation of discomfort or pain (noxious). These two categories are mutually exclusive as a single experience is either perceived as painful/discomforting or not, and comprehensively exhaustive as all such sensations fall into one of these two fundamental perceptual outcomes.
✓
Topic: "Awareness of Noxious Localized Steady Clockwise Torsional Shear" (W6937)