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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 Internal Bodily States"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of internal bodily states can be fundamentally categorized as either perceptions related to the body's internal homeostatic balance, health, and drives (e.g., hunger, thirst, pain from organs, fatigue) or perceptions related to the body's physical configuration, posture, and locomotion in space (e.g., proprioception, kinesthesia, balance). These two categories are distinct in their primary sensory input and functional purpose, making them mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive for internal bodily awareness.
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From: "Awareness of Physiological Needs and States"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of physiological needs and states fundamentally relates to either a deviation from homeostasis, indicating a problem, lack, or threat (physiological discomfort or deficiency), or the successful maintenance or restoration of homeostasis, indicating well-being or met needs (physiological comfort or sufficiency). These two categories are mutually exclusive as a sensation cannot simultaneously signal a problem and its resolution, and comprehensively exhaustive as any conscious physiological state will fall into one of these two fundamental domains.
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From: "Awareness of Physiological Discomfort or Deficiency"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of physiological discomfort or deficiency can be fundamentally categorized based on whether the primary subjective experience is that of pain—a specific, often highly aversive sensation signaling actual or potential tissue damage—or a distinct type of unpleasant physiological state or sensation of lack (e.g., hunger, thirst, fatigue, nausea, itch, dizziness). These two categories are mutually exclusive as a conscious sensation is primarily identified as either pain or not pain, and comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of physiological discomfort or deficiency fall into one of these two fundamental experiential types.
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From: "Awareness of Physiological Pain"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of physiological pain can be fundamentally categorized by its primary anatomical and physiological origin. It either arises from the detection of actual or threatened damage to non-neural tissues via healthy nociceptors (referred to as nociceptive pain), or it arises from a lesion, disease, or altered processing within the somatosensory nervous system itself (encompassing both neuropathic pain and nociplastic pain). These two categories are mutually exclusive as a pain sensation's primary genesis is either external to or internal to the nervous system's proper functioning, and comprehensively exhaustive as all recognized forms of physiological pain fall into one of these two fundamental domains.
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From: "Awareness of Pain Originating from Tissue Damage"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of physiological pain originating from tissue damage (nociceptive pain) can be fundamentally categorized based on the primary anatomical location of the damaged non-neural tissue. This damage either occurs in the somatic structures of the body (e.g., skin, muscles, bones, joints, connective tissues) or in the internal organs (viscera). These two categories are mutually exclusive as the primary site of tissue damage is either somatic or visceral, and comprehensively exhaustive as all non-neural tissues subject to damage fall into one of these two fundamental anatomical domains.
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From: "Awareness of Visceral Nociceptive Pain"
Split Justification: All internal organs (viscera) that can be sources of nociceptive pain are fundamentally categorized as either hollow or solid. Hollow organs are typically characterized by lumens that can distend, contract, or obstruct, leading to colicky or cramping pain, while solid organs are characterized by parenchyma that can swell, become ischemic, or inflamed, often leading to dull, aching, or throbbing pain. This distinction is mutually exclusive as an organ is primarily classified as either hollow or solid, and comprehensively exhaustive as all internal organs fall into one of these two fundamental anatomical categories, providing a basis for classifying the origin and often the quality of visceral nociceptive pain.
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From: "Awareness of Nociceptive Pain from Solid Viscera"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of nociceptive pain originating from solid viscera can be fundamentally categorized based on the spatial distribution of the underlying tissue damage or irritation within the organ. This damage is either spread widely throughout the organ's tissue or a significant portion of it (diffuse pathology, e.g., widespread inflammation, generalized swelling), or it is confined to a specific, circumscribed area (focal pathology, e.g., a tumor, an infarct, a laceration, an abscess). These two categories are mutually exclusive as the primary pathological process causing pain in a solid organ is either predominantly widespread or predominantly localized. They are comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of tissue damage or irritation leading to nociceptive pain in solid viscera will manifest in one of these two fundamental spatial patterns.
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From: "Awareness of Nociceptive Pain from Focal Organ Pathology in Solid Viscera"
Split Justification: All focal pathologies in solid viscera causing nociceptive pain are fundamentally characterized by either a primary process involving tissue injury, loss, or degradation (e.g., lacerations, infarcts, abscesses, acute inflammation) or a primary process involving abnormal tissue growth or physical expansion (e.g., tumors, large cysts, hematomas). These two categories are mutually exclusive as the focal pathology's primary nature is distinctly one or the other, and comprehensively exhaustive as they encompass all fundamental types of focal pathological changes in solid organs that lead to nociceptive pain.
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Topic: "Awareness of Nociceptive Pain from Focal Tissue Growth or Expansion in Solid Viscera" (W7937)