Pulickal, Pearl Bipin: The Existential Cost of Hyper-Vigilance: Cognitive Offloading and the Necessity of Error-Tolerant Architectures

Contemporary paradigms of security and threat-management often prioritize hyper-vigilance and hyper-optimization, demanding continuous, error-free cognitive processing from human actors. This paper interrogates the psychological and existential sustainability of such models. Utilizing the metaphor of continuous surveillance (e.g., the "gold shop" security paradigm) and contrasting it with cinematic depictions of invulnerable protagonists, this preprint argues that biological systems are fundamen