Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?

[emjay]

Computationally, timing is a non issue.  Discrepancy between variable timings (if there even -are- variable ticks in the system) is handled by registers.  In the event that they -cannot- be resolved there is no shortage of processes with which to handle the error. Our computers (deplorably lacking examples of the set if our brains are computers as well) manage to deal with timing related issues all day erryday. They pose no insurmountable problem to a calculator, and this leaves me wondering why they would pose any greater a problem to our minds.

I'm not sure that applies to how I view the processing in the brain. To me it's basically just the constant flux and flow of neural dynamics. So a choice represents one context or another gaining the upper hand in competition with others etc. So any large gap in timing doesn't really fit. So in that case one explanation could be that there is still 'settling' going on, just more subtly and out of conscious awareness... so though it feels like you're doing/thinking nothing when you're being idle, there may still be plenty going on below the surface.