The transition from universal to particular self is unexplained

Evidence

What remains mysterious (and we cannot be satisfied here by evoking ”the wisdom of nature”) is therefore the deep structure of transformation, the transition from a universal self, not yet particularized, to the singular self, to that which I am, that which we are. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 213

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• QUESTION: The claim that neurobiology cannot explain how a universal proto-self becomes a singular ‘I’ is the crux of Malabou’s plasticity critique — worth chasing for the plasticity/flexibility argument.

Related

• How a universal proto-self becomes a singular person is unknown (similarity 0.95)
• Neuroscientific findings remain inert without a new understanding of self (similarity 0.81)
• The self is posited to unify otherwise divergent plastic brain processes (similarity 0.80)
• Neurology cannot explain what makes mental transitions possible (similarity 0.80)
• A fourth type of plasticity mediating neuronal and experiential selves is needed (similarity 0.80)
• Thinking brain plasticity correctly is required to think freedom (similarity 0.80)
• The brain’s plasticity would scatter the mind without a self to unify its networks (similarity 0.78)
• Freedom depends on theorizing the plasticity of transition (similarity 0.78)