It would seem logical that this is more of “our brains can get overloaded and must shed the extra chaos” than we operate near a specific tipping point all the t

It would seem logical that this is more of “our brains can get overloaded and must shed the extra chaos” than we operate near a specific tipping point all the time. In a system that expends energy to do its job, a well designed system would try to regulate energy usage by optimizing on-the-fly and discarding activities using too much energy or energy in an inefficient way.