neuroscience for some time, the specific interpretation of metastability in the context of brain operations of different complexity has been developed by andrew and alexander fingelkurts within their model of operational architectonics of brain–mind functioning. metastability is basically a theory of how global integrative and local segregative tendencies coexist in the brain. the operational architectonics is centered on the fact that in the metastable regime of brain functioning, the individual parts of the brain exhibit tendencies to function autonomously at the same time as they exhibit tendencies for coordinated activity. in accordance with operational architectonics, the synchronized operations produced by distributed neuronal assemblies constitute the metastable spatial-temporal patterns. they are metastable because intrinsic differences in the activity between neuronal assemblies are sufficiently large that they each do their own job (operation), while still retaining a tendency to be coordinated together in order to realize the complex brain operation. the future of metastability in addition to study investigating the effects of metastable interactions on traditional social function, much research will likely focus on determining the role of the coordinated dynamic system and the global workspace in the progression of debilitating diseases such as alzheimer's disease, parkinson's disease, stroke, and schizophrenia. undoubtedly, spatiotemporal imaging techniques such as meg and fmri will elaborate on results already gleaned from analysis of eeg output. an interest in the effect of a traumatic or semi-traumatic brain injury (tbi) on the coordinated dynamical system has developed in the last five years as the number of tbi cases has risen from war-related injuries.