Interface Thermodynamics Transition

When latency in human-machine interaction drops below a critical threshold, the communication mode undergoes a phase transition from turn-taking to simultaneous interaction. This shift is not a gradual performance improvement, but a qualitative change where both human psychology and machine capability simultaneously reach a tipping point. Humans begin to treat machines as conversation partners rather than query tools, and machines transform from instruments into interlocutors.

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