Consciousness works by converting stored energy into controlled releases

Evidence

When we consider the mechanism of voluntary movement in particular, the functioning of the nervous system in general, and in fact life itself in what is essential to it, we are led to the conclusion that the invariable contrivance of consciousness, from its most humble origin in elementary living forms, is to convert physical determinism to its own ends, or rather to elude the law of the conservation of energy while obtaining from matter a fabrication of explosives, ever intenser and more utilizable. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 242

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the explosive model Malabou draws from (Bergson) that grounds her plasticity as explosion metaphor.