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The basic concept is: enter image description here

内側 means that spaces are divided by something like fence, and you're standing the inside ground, while is like that there's a vessel and you're inside of it.

The interpretation of Xの内側 and Xの中 is different regarding the X. In the former, X indicates boundary, while in the latter, X is container. If X is something with inner room, then whoever in Xの中 is likely to be in that space, but if X is a filled material, then they're likely to be packed within it.


Random examples taken from Google image search:

They are thought to be in ガラスの内側 but not ガラスの中:

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while he is thought to be in ガラスの内側 or ガラスの中:

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and they are thought to be in ガラスの中 but not ガラスの内側:
(well, these are actually ice cubes but never mind)

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There's other (mostly figurative) usage of , that is you can refer what you see through apertures such as: 絵の中, 鏡の中, 画面の中 etc.

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