2007-02-13 10:16:08 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Hmmm… :)
Good question, Ω.
For me, at least, the speed of thought is variable – so specify, please: are we discussing thoughts with or without caffeine? ;) I do know, however, in the minutes it takes light to make its relatively slow passage from Sol to Earth, our thoughts can flit from here to there easily AND back again…to continue on beyond the solar system, contemplating in turns the expansive past and our unfathomable future...while deciding what to cook for dinner.*
Find me a photon who can do that, and I’ll declare light the winner. :)
2007-02-14 09:47:12 · answer #1 · answered by Cedo. 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Once upon a time there were 3 scientists that participated in a big conference in order to give a talk about the fastest speed in the world. The first scientist proved that the speed of light is the fastest of all, showing the equation of its velocity. The second debated the first proving that the speed of though is the fastest cause its instantaneous. When it was the turn for the third one to talk, everybody saw him standing up from his chair and leaving the room laughing at the others. What a bunch of idiots he said , what kind of conference is this? While he was outside the room some scientists invited him politely to come back inside and to give the talk about his own research. Then he said ' I believe strongly and I have the complete evidence that the fastest speed in the world is the speed of Diarrhoea'. Everybody was amazed. Then the scientists shouted at him. How can you prove it? So, he said: Yesterday, after a large seafood meal that i had in a restaurant i had the urgent need to use the toilet. I tried to control my bowel and started running towards the restroom but just before i could THINK to switch on the LIGHT, i crapped my pants'
I guess this explains a lot :)
2007-02-13 11:22:49 · answer #2 · answered by mphermes 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'd say that it depends on the complexity of the thought. Although the speed of light is faster than the speed of making a thought, our thoughts are pretty simple and I doubt we have reached the climax of our mental evolution. Imagine if we could think the whole history of our planet in the same time as when we make a simple thought. We could say that the speed of a thought should be calculated by taking into consideration the complexity of the thought (the amount of information in a single a thought) in relation to time...
Kind of a sci-fi reply, lol! : )
2007-02-13 11:42:35 · answer #3 · answered by Alexander K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am certain that the speed of light is faster.
I base that on the speed of light is almost instant and I am no astronomer but when a new star is born the light from it reaches great distances in a very small amount of time.
On the other hand, thoughts while they may come to us instantaneously are almost always predicated on some earlier thought. In other words, when you are born, you may have a few thoughts but you don't remember them and they may not go anywhere. So you are continually learning and that instantaneous thought is actually the sum of several other previous thoughts.
2007-02-13 10:50:51 · answer #4 · answered by John P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you understand by "the speed of thought". If you mean brainwaves, then the speed of light is faster. If you mean "I'm thinking now about the Moon, and then about the Sun" then the thought is faster (it takes light more than 8 minutes to travel that distance).
2007-02-14 03:53:19 · answer #5 · answered by zavandi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a trick question. Thought process verses speed of light?
I like it!
Involuntary thought is just as fast as light. The EM flash in the brain aside from voluntary actions are an accumulations of many thoughts to process an answer, and would be considered Brainstorming right? So,it would be considered inconclusive evidence.
Let me think about this some more, and I'll be back in a Flash!
2007-02-13 20:11:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
complexity of a thought or its length does not hav anythin to do with the speed of its transmission.....
thoughts originate in the brain & this could either be a slow or fast process dependin on the 2 factors mentioned above.....but it has been proved that each person responds to a certain thought in a different manner{the resultin action is the response here} but the command 4 these actions travels to the effector organs in just a few microseconds, as nerve impulses.......
the speed of light is 3 00 000 m/s,and surely our thoughts
cannot cover that much distance in a second `cause afterall they are electric waves........
so i think that light is faster.......
i hope this would help you....
2007-02-13 15:35:11 · answer #7 · answered by starfire 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light is the fastest speed known in the universe. Nerve impulses are slower because they are basically an electrical conduction traveling across a neuron's axon. The speed of impulse transmission can be slowed or sped up depending on a variety of factors (absence or presence of myelination, travel across synapses to other neurons...) but I've never heard of a nerve impulse traveling at the speed of light.
2007-02-13 10:43:46 · answer #8 · answered by ssmith 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light. If we are to assume that the 'power' of thought is an EM force then it is a universal fact that in normal space light will be the fastest thing.
Hope this helps.
2007-02-13 10:20:06 · answer #9 · answered by Arthur N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light. Should a thought suddenly 'strike' you, light would have already passed you by.
2007-02-13 10:18:44 · answer #10 · answered by You Ask & I Answer!!! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋