Felt fragility fails to displace the rigid centrality metaphor of the brain

Evidence

The brain becomes our problem or our illness, our passion, rather than our mastery, our solution or decision.” There thus exists a lived brain but, as I indicated at the start, this lived brain is not necessarily conscious. The proof of this is that the intimate feeling of cerebral fragility, constantly sustained by media images of neurodegenerative disorders, has not managed to usurp the dominant representation of a rigid centrality that is not pertinent even for describing machines. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 128

Categorization

• XREF: The divergence between lived fragility and dominant rigid metaphor parallels the earlier plasticity-flexibility worry: representation lags lived neurological reality.