Completed forms discharge stored energy to free new future actualizations
Evidence
As Hegel shows us, the teleological structure ends by reversing its course, in that the forms already actualized discharge their potential energy and consequently liberate future possibilities of actualization. Distributed in this way, the individuals are ready to engage again, in new constructions, new readings, new thoughts. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1129
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Directly answers the reader’s plasticity mechanism question: the discharge of stored potential energy in already-actualized forms is the condition under which plastic receptivity flips into renewed agency — connecting to the ch66 ‘stored energy needs only a spark to detonate’ thread.