Habit belongs to every organic being, not only humans.

Evidence

Because inorganic bodies are incapable of this self-differentiation, they lack the power to develop habit. On the other hand, each and every organic being, living ‘with itself as its own end’ and which must ‘preserve within itself the unity of the self’, is always a being of habit. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 499

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines habit’s scope: it follows from self-differentiation and self-preservation, the defining traits of organic life.
• XREF: Resonates with the reader’s plasticity work — habit as the organic precondition of neurological plasticity. — connects to: Habit itself precedes humanity and belongs already to animal existence; Habit is the organic being’s effort to maintain unity through synthesizing differences; Habit is an intentionally-produced alteration that defines how humans acquire form (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Habit itself precedes humanity and belongs already to animal existence #corroborates (0.95)
• Habit is an intentionally-produced alteration that defines how humans acquire form #contradicts (0.85)
• Habits are acquired socially and deeply rooted, not instinctive #contradicts (0.80) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 164
• Habit is the organic being’s effort to maintain unity through synthesizing differences #expands (0.75)