Plasticity raises whether re-formation has limits against excessive polymorphism

Evidence

If we can accept the idea that personality derives from a constellation of established connections, then we can also accept that personality is reformable or re-formable. If this is so, are this reformation and this re-forming without limits, or do they have some capacity to resist an excess of polymorphism? Here we rejoin the point of confrontation between flexibility and plasticity. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 226

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the plasticity-vs-flexibility distinction: plasticity reformats form and can resist, while mere flexibility conforms.