The brain-consciousness identity debate is a false problem hiding real questions

Evidence

It is no longer important to ask whether brain and consciousness are one and the same thing—let us put aside this old and specious debate. Instead we must constitute this strange critical entity, at once philosophical, scientific, and political, that would be a consciousness of the brain. It is to the constitution of this new genre—open to everyone—that the question What should we do with our brain? invites us. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 28

Categorization

• DEFINE: Reframes the book’s central project as a critical consciousness of the brain rather than a metaphysical identity claim.
• SEED: Angle: catch the ‘plasticity vs flexibility’ substitution by noting that ‘docility rebranded’ only works when the metaphysical debate is left unresolved.