Neuroscience that skips the nature-to-culture transition is ideological, not descriptive.

Evidence

We have shown that, by proposing no theory or interpretation of this transformation or this transition—which cannot simply be the result of observation or of objective description— neuroscientific discourse in general exposes itself to ideological risk and offers nothing new to mankind, while plasticity, far from producing a mirror image of the world, is the form of another possible world. To produce a consciousness of the brain thus demands that we defend a biological alter-globalism. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 260

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core articulation that plasticity is generative (‘the form of another possible world’) rather than reflective.
• QUESTION: What precisely does ‘biological alter-globalism’ commit one to practically — is it a real political program or a rhetorical gesture?
• XREF: connects to: Neuroscience that skips theorizing biological-to-mental transition risks serving ideology.