Humans unknowingly make their own brain through experience

Evidence

We are living at the hour of neuronal liberation, and we do not know it. An agency within us gives sense to the code, and we do not know it. The difference between the brain and psychism is shrinking considerably, and we do not know it. ”We” end up coinciding completely with ”our brain”—because our brain is us, the intimate form of a ”proto-self,” a sort of organic personality—and we do not know it. Humans make their own brain, but they do not know they are doing so. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 48

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrast point for the plasticity-flexibility distinction: plasticity is active self-formation we fail to notice.
• XREF: connects to: Restricted experience produces the one-dimensional, manipulated individual — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 672