A closed system’s openness to modification while transforming itself is plasticity
Evidence
Thus, the possibility of a closed system to welcome new phenomena, all the while transforming itself, is what appears as plasticity. Here again we find the process by which a contingent event, or accident, touches at the heart of the system, and, in the same breath, changes itself into one of the system’s essential elements. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1283
Categorization
- XREF: Direct bridge to autopoiesis and neuroplasticity theory — a closed system (brain) that reconfigures its own components in response to perturbation is exactly the organism-level figure Malabou is formalizing. — connects to: The melting and re-solidifying of metals illustrates reversible material transformation — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 27; Plasticity is structural transformation operating within closure rather than beyond it — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1281; Flexibility is plasticity stripped of its power to give and erase form — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 56 (+14 more)
- DEFINE: Offers a working operational definition of plasticity usable outside pure Hegel scholarship: welcomed perturbation becoming essential element.
Broader Connections
- Plasticity is structural transformation operating within closure rather than beyond it
#corroborates(0.92) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1281 - Flexibility is plasticity stripped of its power to give and erase form
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 56 - Plasticity includes a closed sense of receiving a definitive, irreversible form.
#qualifies(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 62 - Plasticity holds original form and full self-transformation together
#expands(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 259 - Plasticity unifies spontaneity and receptivity in an evolving structure
#expands(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1251 - Plasticity spans a spectrum from fixed form to total malleability
#expands(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 109 - Plasticity holds origin and self-abandonment together in one capacity
#expands(0.78) - Plasticity means formative change through rupture, not smooth continuous adaptation
#contradicts(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 258 - Plasticity spans from rigid determination of form to total freedom from form
#expands(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 67 - Plasticity names both malleability and the power to give form
#expands(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1310 - Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form
#expands(0.78) - Plasticity here means sculpting a genetically determined form, not flexible change
#qualifies(0.76) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 75 - Plasticity is adaptive while flexibility is submission, not resourcefulness
#expands(0.74) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 23 - Plasticity adapts while flexibility submits, so the two are not interchangeable
#expands(0.74) - Plasticity’s future emerges from replaying rigid past forms
#qualifies(0.74) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1268