Thought is nature negated, not an appendix of the neuronal.

Evidence

Thus the transition from a purely biological entity to a mental entity takes place in the struggle of the one against the other, producing the truth of their relation. Thought is therefore nothing but nature, but a negated nature, marked by its own difference from itself. The world is not the calm prolonging of the biological. The mental is not the wise appendix of the neuronal. And the brain is not the natural ideal of globalized economic, political, and social organization; it is the locus of an organic tension that is the basis of our history and our critical activity. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 263

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that the brain is ‘not the natural ideal of globalized organization’ ties plasticity to the reader’s workplace-memo concern — vigilance against using brain science to bless corporate structure. — connects to: Concepts are tools for dominating nature, not for understanding it — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 52; Mana is the echo of real nature’s supremacy, not a projection. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 40; The concept of nature is a dumping-ground defined purely as reason’s excluded opposite. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 97