Brain plasticity includes a refusal to submit to any model or form.

Evidence

The word plasticity thus unfolds its meaning between sculptural molding and deflagration, which is to say explosion. From this perspective, to talk about the plasticity of the brain means to see in it not only the creator and receiver of form but also an agency of disobedience to every constituted form, a refusal to submit to a model. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 41

Categorization

• DEFINE: The full tripartite definition — giving form, receiving form, and exploding form — is established here; flexibility only ever receives, so this is the reader’s key contrast.
• SEED: An essay could catch how wellness apps and management memos silently drop the explosive third term when they swap ‘plasticity’ for ‘flexibility.’