Plasticity: Affective environments and the edges of Life

upeer pool studio, semester two, 2006. Pia Ednie-Brown

::Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits… the phenomena of habit in living beings are due to the plasticity of the organic materials of which their bodies are composed.:: William James

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