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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 Non-Pain Physiological Discomfort or Deficiency"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of non-pain physiological discomfort or deficiency can be fundamentally categorized based on whether the primary experience signals a lack of essential bodily resources necessary for survival and function (e.g., hunger, thirst, fatigue, air hunger) or an unpleasant internal somatic state requiring the body to adapt, regulate, or eliminate something (e.g., nausea, itch, dizziness, urges to excrete, thermal discomfort). These two categories are mutually exclusive as an experience's primary driver is either a deficit of essential resources or a disruptive internal somatic condition, and comprehensively exhaustive as all non-pain physiological discomforts or deficiencies fall into one of these two fundamental experiential types.
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From: "Awareness of Aversive Somatic Regulation Needs"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of aversive somatic regulation needs can be fundamentally categorized based on whether the primary goal of the regulation is to expel or eliminate substances from the body (e.g., urges to excrete, nausea leading to vomiting) or to adjust internal physiological parameters or sensory states to restore equilibrium without primarily involving expulsion (e.g., itch, dizziness, thermal discomfort). These two categories are mutually exclusive as a sensation's primary regulatory demand is either for elimination/expulsion or for internal adjustment/rebalancing, and comprehensively exhaustive as all aversive somatic regulation needs fall into one of these two fundamental types.
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From: "Awareness of Aversive Internal State Rebalancing Needs"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of aversive internal state rebalancing needs can be fundamentally categorized based on whether the primary subjective experience reflects a broad deviation from the body's overall internal equilibrium and essential regulatory parameters (e.g., thermal discomfort, general malaise) or a specific, often discrete, disturbance arising from particular sensory inputs or neural processing irregularities within a localized system or modality (e.g., itch, dizziness, tinnitus). These two categories are mutually exclusive as an experience's primary referent is either a global physiological state or a specific sensory/neurological event, and comprehensively exhaustive as all such rebalancing needs fall into one of these two fundamental experiential types.
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From: "Awareness of Localized Sensory-Neurological Disruption"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of localized sensory-neurological disruption can be fundamentally categorized based on whether the primary subjective experience is a distinct, unpleasant sensation arising from a specific somatic pathway (e.g., itch, unpleasant tingling, localized burning without tissue damage) or a perception that is distorted, illusory, or internally generated without an external stimulus (e.g., dizziness, tinnitus, phantom limb sensations). These two categories are mutually exclusive because an experience is fundamentally either a distinct type of sensation or a disruption in the fidelity of perception, and comprehensively exhaustive as all localized sensory-neurological disruptions fall into one of these two fundamental experiential types.
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From: "Awareness of Illusory or Phantom Sensory Perceptions"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of illusory or phantom sensory perceptions can be fundamentally categorized based on whether the primary subjective experience involves the perception of something that is physically absent or non-existent (e.g., a missing limb, a sound with no external source) or whether it involves a distorted or misrepresentational perception of an existing bodily state, physical configuration, or interaction with space (e.g., dizziness, altered body size perception). These two categories are mutually exclusive as a perception fundamentally refers to either an absent entity/stimulus or a distorted existing one, and comprehensively exhaustive as all such perceptions fall into one of these two fundamental types.
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Topic: "Awareness of Illusory Somatic Distortions" (W8129)