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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 Noxious Stimuli"
Split Justification: All awareness of external noxious stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on whether the stimulus causes or threatens tissue damage through direct physical deformation or disruption (mechanical forces) or through extreme temperature changes or chemical interactions at a molecular level. This categorizes all noxious stimuli by their primary physical or chemical mechanism of action on bodily tissues, making the distinction mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Awareness of External Thermally or Chemically Induced Noxious Stimuli"
Split Justification: All awareness of external thermally or chemically induced noxious stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on whether the primary mechanism causing nociception is extreme temperature (thermal) or a chemical interaction with tissues (chemical). This distinction directly separates the two explicit components of the parent node, creating two categories that are mutually exclusive in their primary cause and comprehensively exhaustive as they together cover all stimuli within the parent's scope.
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From: "Awareness of External Chemically Induced Noxious Stimuli"
Split Justification: All awareness of external chemically induced noxious stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on whether the primary mechanism causing the noxious sensation is the direct physical or chemical degradation and damage to bodily tissues, or whether it is the activation of specific nociceptive sensory receptors through chemical binding or interaction without immediate gross tissue destruction. These two categories are mutually exclusive in their primary mechanism of action and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of external chemically induced noxious stimuli.
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From: "Awareness of External Noxious Stimuli from Chemical Nociceptor Activation"
Split Justification: All awareness of external noxious stimuli from chemical nociceptor activation can be fundamentally divided based on whether the external chemical acts as a specific ligand that binds directly to and activates particular nociceptive receptor proteins, or whether it causes general physicochemical changes (e.g., alterations in pH, osmolarity, or redox state) in the immediate environment of the nociceptor that then activate sensitive channels or proteins. These two categories are mutually exclusive in their primary molecular mechanism of activation and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of external chemical nociceptor activation without direct tissue damage.
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From: "Awareness of External Noxious Stimuli from Specific Receptor Ligand Binding"
Split Justification: All awareness of external noxious stimuli from specific receptor ligand binding can be fundamentally divided based on whether the primary mechanism of receptor activation involves a ligand directly opening or closing an ion channel (ionotropic action) or whether it involves a ligand activating a G protein-coupled receptor, initiating an intracellular signaling cascade (metabotropic action). These two categories represent the principal molecular mechanisms by which specific external chemical ligands transduce signals at the neuronal membrane to trigger nociception, making them mutually exclusive as a receptor is fundamentally either an ion channel or a GPCR, and comprehensively exhaustive for this scope of specific receptor-mediated external chemical noxious awareness.
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Topic: "Awareness of External Noxious Stimuli from G Protein-Coupled Receptor Activation" (W7161)