Plasticity holds together originary attachment and the capacity to abandon fixed form.

Evidence

What is fascinating about stem cells is that they bring together the origin, as their name indicates, and the future, the capacity for self re-form. Is this not the best possible definition of plasticity: the relation that an individual entertains with what, on the one hand, attaches him originally to himself, to his proper form, and with what, on the other hand, allows him to launch himself into the void of all identity, to abandon all rigid and fixed determination? — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 259

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: The stem-cell figure gives the core definition of plasticity: simultaneously receiving one’s form and being able to explode form — the double character the reader must be able to articulate.

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• Plasticity holds original form and full self-transformation together (similarity 0.95)
• Plasticity includes a closed sense of receiving a definitive, irreversible form. (similarity 0.86)
• Plasticity spans from rigid determination of form to total freedom from form (similarity 0.86)
• Plasticity means receiving form while resisting deformation, and extends to tissue regrowth (similarity 0.85)
• Plasticity spans both the creation and the explosive annihilation of form. (similarity 0.84)
• Plasticity spans both taking on form and annihilating it (similarity 0.84)
• Plasticity’s open sense means changing one’s form, not just receiving it. (similarity 0.84)
• Plasticity names the dialectical union of form-seizure and form-annihilation. (similarity 0.84)
• Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form (similarity 0.84)
• Plasticity names the concept’s reflexive power to both give and receive its own figures (similarity 0.83)
• Plasticity also means the ability to change one’s own determination (similarity 0.83)
• Plasticity in mechanics means irreversible deformation, the opposite of elasticity (similarity 0.83)
• Plasticity spans a spectrum from fixed form to total malleability (similarity 0.82)
• Plasticity raises whether re-formation has limits against excessive polymorphism (similarity 0.82)
• Brain plasticity includes a capacity to destroy form, not only create it (similarity 0.82)