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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 Thermally Induced Noxious Stimuli"
Split Justification: All awareness of external thermally induced noxious stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on whether the nociceptive stimulus is caused by excessively high temperatures (heat) or by excessively low temperatures (cold). These two categories are mutually exclusive as a noxious thermal stimulus is either too hot or too cold, and together they comprehensively cover all forms of externally induced thermal nociception.
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From: "Awareness of External Excessively Hot Noxious Stimuli"
Split Justification: ** All awareness of external excessively hot noxious stimuli arises from heat transferred to the body via one of three fundamental physical mechanisms: conduction, convection, or radiation. This split categorizes these experiences based on whether the heat is primarily transferred through direct physical contact with a hot object (conduction) or through the movement of fluids (convection) or electromagnetic waves (radiation) without direct physical contact. These two categories are mutually exclusive in their primary mechanism of heat transfer and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all forms of external thermal nociception from excessive heat.
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From: "Awareness of External Excessively Hot Noxious Stimuli from Convection or Radiation"
Split Justification: All awareness of external excessively hot noxious stimuli from convection or radiation can be fundamentally divided based on whether the heat transfer occurs through the movement of fluids (convection) or through electromagnetic waves (radiation). These two categories are mutually exclusive in their physical mechanism of heat transfer and comprehensively exhaustive, together covering all forms of external thermal nociception from excessive heat via these pathways.
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Topic: "Awareness of External Excessively Hot Noxious Stimuli from Radiation" (W7417)