Memory stability depends on ongoing potential destabilization of the whole

Evidence

Neurons somehow remember stimulation. Everything happens as if there were no stabilization of memories except on the condition of a potential destabilization of the general landscape of memory. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 89

Categorization

• DEFINE: The counterintuitive thesis at the heart of plasticity: stability is purchased through constant lability.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that no memory stabilizes except through potential destabilization of the whole landscape is a paradigm-level inversion — worth sitting with, directly relevant to catching how plasticity (not flexibility) is being invoked.
• XREF: connects to: Digital memory lacks the living, retranscribed temporality of real memory; Repeated failed returns to normal progressively destabilize the reality system — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2142