Which is faster : the speed of light or the mind?

Question

Thanks for the answers. What about the stimulus that doesn't come from neither of the 5 senses, I mean like imagination that is created in the mind?

Answer 1

For most people, light is faster...some of us are just a little too slow minded....

Answer 2

The Speed of Light is Much Faster than the Minds Imagination, Because the Way how our Mind Creates Imagination is through Electical Impulses, and for the Nerve Cells to Generate those Impulses would Take a Lot more Time than it would take for the Light to Travel (comparing with respect to Time and not Distance)

Answer 3

I agree with Peter K
But here is something to consider. The mind cannot percieve without stimulus of some kind. We know that sound speed is relatively slow compared to light.
So that leaves the eye to do the percieving. Well if there is no light the eye is hampered, therfore the brain cannot percieve an image. If there is light then an image is percieved but only after the light has arrived for the eye to register the presence of light and relay the image to the brain. Therfore I conclude that the light is faster than the brain as it has to arrive before the perception can take place and relay to the brain

Answer 4

The 'mind' is operated by the brain using chemical reactions that occur at or below the speed of light. Any photons involved would travel at the speed of light but would likely move very short distances before being recaptured by electrons orbiting atoms and molecules within the brain. However there is no speed limit for the imagination. Imagine that you are at the center of our galaxy (the Milky Way). How many light years distance is that and how long did it take your imagination to get there?

Answer 5

You're not really comparing apples with apples there. The mind's speed is not the same as the speed of light.

Although our mind ticks pretty quickly, messages sent around our brain and to/from the PNS are by neurons, which are similar in nature to electrical signals. In the body they can travel anywhere between 1-120 meters per second. The bigger and thicker the neuron, the faster the speed. Myelinated neurones conduct signals faster than non-myelinated signals. The fastest signals are to do with reflexes and movements for obvious reasons- you've got to respond pretty quickly in some cases.

To test how fast you are, you can test your reflexes via some simple tests. Just do a search online.

Most of the time taken to conduct signals however are not in the neurons themselves, but from one neuron to another, crossing what are called synaptic junctions. Here the electrical signal is converted to a chemical one which has to diffuse, so it's much slower. Therefore the fastest pathways in the mind will involve as few neurons as possible.

However fast our mind is, that is still nothing compared to the speed of light which is at 3x10^8 meters per second. Light wins.

Answer 6

The Mind, The Self, The Realm.
The Universe Withins,or The MicroCosmos, do expand in conjuctio with that of The MacroCosmos, it would absorpts anything eitherway, nor intercepting otherwises, but it would just be a Mirror. As dream had becomes the flowers of the Slept.
Or it is would be unending journeys and travels in Time between unchartered teritory and tertiary zone of such a World or Earth the Mother,the very womb and wound of this very Mistery of Life.
The Body would be just either a Shelter or just there as a lying skelton or a skull. Read more about that on those books of Realigions,there could be fined. taxed but unpaid,mistery of Monetarey and financials.

Answer 7

The mind is abominably slow.

You may think you are quick thinking, but of course you can only think this as fast as your mind works, so however slow you are it will always appear fast to you.

In reality, it takes between 1/100th and 1/10th of a second for signals to pass from top to bottom of the brain - a distance of a few centimetres. Light would cover the same distance in around 1/billionth of a second.

However, the brain is wonderfully complex and this is how it makes up for its lack of speed.

Answer 8

Light

Answer 9

speed of light is far faster, about 300,000 km/sec in a vacuum. our brain uses electrical impulses but like electricity in wires these electrons are slowed by the material they are moving through. also, our brain activity is only half electrical (or less). most of the processes in our brains are chemical ones with various neurotransmitters acting as 'couriers' and physically travelling between neurons or glial cells. the only reasons our brains seem to work quickly is because all these processes occur across very tiny spaces.

Answer 10

I think mind speed is faster than light speed as light speed has defined but mind speed not defined till date.

Answer 11

Depends on what you mean, the electrical impulses in your brain, or the thought process. The electrical impulses probably travel at the same speed of light actually.