Whether or not the phase shift and phase lock are time correlated to a task is irrelevant since “self-organized criticality” is an ongoing background emergent process that on the average produces an approximately 20–80 ms period of phase shift or “uncertainty” or approximate duration of “chaos” followed on the average by a 200–800 ms period of phase locking or “stability.” This process represent a continuous sequence of meta-stable states (Rabinovich et al., 2012). The loop network background process includes “blank” periods when large assemblies of neurons are in a PR mode (i.e., phase shift and phase locking) and otherwise not available to participate in loops which represents an approximate average 135 ms “Gap” or period of time between when neurons recruited by a phase shift are followed by phase lock onset. This gap is a statistical region with an average and range between the end of a phase shift and the beginning of a subsequent phase lock. This appears to be a fundamental “unconscious” transition time that is near to the flicker fusion frequency and may be why TV viewers
