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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 Olfactory Stimuli"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of external non-noxious olfactory stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on the primary hedonic valence they evoke. An olfactory stimulus either elicits a positive affective response (pleasure) or it elicits a negative (unpleasure) or neutral affective response. This distinction provides two categories that are mutually exclusive, as any given non-noxious olfactory experience falls into one of these valence domains, and together they comprehensively cover all forms of conscious awareness of external non-noxious olfactory stimuli.
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From: "Awareness of External Olfactory Stimuli with Positive Hedonic Valence"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of external olfactory stimuli with positive hedonic valence can be fundamentally divided based on whether the pleasantness primarily stems from the indication of direct, consumable resources (e.g., food, drink) or from the indication of a broader, non-consumable benefit related to the environment or social interactions. This distinction precisely separates the primary nature of the benefit signaled by the pleasant odor, making the categories mutually exclusive, and together they comprehensively cover all forms of conscious awareness of external olfactory stimuli with positive hedonic valence.
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From: "Awareness of Positive Olfactory Stimuli Indicating Broader Environmental or Social Benefit"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of positive olfactory stimuli indicating a broader environmental or social benefit can be fundamentally divided based on whether the pleasantness primarily signals a desirable condition or quality of the natural, non-human world (e.g., healthy ecosystems, fresh air, wild flora) or if it primarily signals well-being, comfort, care, hygiene, or connection derived from human presence, activities, artifacts, or social arrangements within an environment. This distinction establishes two mutually exclusive categories based on the primary referent of the signaled benefit (nature's inherent state vs. human-derived conditions), and together they comprehensively cover the entire scope of the parent node.
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Topic: "Awareness of Positive Olfactory Stimuli Signaling Human-Centric Environments or Social Bonds" (W7353)