Neuroplasticity, Historicity, and Mediation
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The French philosopher Catherine Malabou’s discussion of neuroplasticity reveals the brain’s ability to form connections, make changes, and repair damages. These functions, construing the brain’s historicity as a biological process, also qualify plasticity as mediation between different forms of life. Plasticity thus also offers resistance against socioeconomic reification and capitalist exploitation. Malabou’s neurophilosophy envisions a biological globalism that empowers everyone with the potential to change individual lives and society. I draw on her neurophilosophy to understand the discussion of spirituality and Asian philosophy in German modernism.
Source: Articulations
DOI: 10.60949/at2z-dq55
Author: Zhang, Chunjie
Institution: University of California, Davis
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
OpenAlex ID: W6902426984
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