A fragmented brain reframes lived neurology as fragile passion, not sovereign mastery

Evidence

The ”discovery of a probabilistic or semifortuitous cerebral space, ‘an uncertain system,''' according to Deleuze, implies the idea of a multiple, fragmentary organization, an ensemble of micro-powers more than the form of a central committee. In consequence, ”our lived relation with the brain becomes more and more fragile, less and less ‘Euclidean,’ and goes through little cerebral deaths. The brain becomes our problem or our illness, our passion, rather than our mastery, our solution or decision.” — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 128

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