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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 Gustatory Stimuli"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of external non-noxious gustatory stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on the primary molecular mechanism of their transduction at the taste receptor cells. Some taste qualities (e.g., salty, sour) are primarily mediated by direct interaction with ion channels, while others (e.g., sweet, bitter, umami) are primarily mediated by G-protein coupled receptor pathways. These represent distinct physiological pathways for chemical detection, making the categories mutually exclusive, and together they comprehensively cover the known basic taste modalities of non-noxious chemical stimuli.
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From: "Awareness of Gustatory Stimuli Transduced by Ion Channels"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of gustatory stimuli transduced by ion channels can be fundamentally divided based on whether the primary chemical mediator is the sodium ion (responsible for salty taste) or the hydrogen ion (responsible for sour taste). These represent distinct chemical species that interact with different ion channels and cellular mechanisms to produce their respective taste sensations, making them mutually exclusive. Together, they comprehensively cover the primary known basic taste modalities that are transduced via ion channels.
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From: "Awareness of Gustatory Stimuli Primarily Mediated by Hydrogen Ions"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of gustatory stimuli primarily mediated by hydrogen ions can be fundamentally divided based on whether the hydrogen ions generate the primary electrical signal by directly flowing through a dedicated ion channel (e.g., OTOP1 channels) or by altering the conductance of other existing ion channels (e.g., blocking potassium channels). These represent two distinct and major cellular mechanisms by which hydrogen ions depolarize taste receptor cells, making them mutually exclusive in their specific mode of action, and together they comprehensively cover the primary ways hydrogen ions mediate the sour taste sensation.
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Topic: "Awareness of Gustatory Stimuli Mediated by H+ Modulation of Other Ion Channels" (W7609)