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world regions

in the thought of German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), three different aspects of a person’s lived experience characterized as three worlds simultaneously inhabited by Dasein—the Eigenwelt, or private and subjective world; the Mitwelt, or social world; and the Umwelt, or immediate physical environment.

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neural chain

neural chain

a simple type of neural circuit in which neurons are attached end to end.