The phone rang before whack a mole . She leaves to get the last page of the packet , he takes the photos , she come back and hooks Cooper up to the machine , she initializes the upload , the phone rings . At this point Cooper is gone and we are witnessing his synaptic flash from here forward . The next thing that happens is Whack a Mole , which is certainly in Coopers mind . <| sep |> A Gonna kind be weird though . <| sep |> Yes yes yes this I one of the things I was talking about . This could also be applicable to all people due to the Hawthorne Effect . FYI the Hawthorne Effect is when Henry A . Landsberger noticed a tendency for some people to work harder and perform better when they were being observed by researchers . My theory is that this effect is stronger in certain personalities , primarily extroverts .