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Sylvia Else wrote:
> 
> On 25/04/2017 2:42 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > Sylvia Else wrote:
> >>
> >> On 23/04/2017 4:37 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>> The Speed of Thought
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I don't think you girls have even begun to measure it correctly.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I don't think you've even begun to define it correctly.
> >>
> >> Sylvia.
> >
> >
> > You want definitions, you get out your dictionary.
> >
> >
> > Simply put, 'thought' traveling.. is not confined to neurons,
> > telephone wires or satelites....
> >
> >
> > or smoke signals.
> >
> > Or your local post office...
> >
> >
> >
> > neurons, telephone wires and satelites are all carriers
> > of...thought.
> >
> >
> > I think it's fair to say Thought travels faster than the speed of
> > light simply because information wishes to be free and not confined
> > to any fixed numbers or carriers.
> 
> It's not very useful to define the speed of thought as being the speed
> at which a notion can be conveyed by any means whatsoever. For long
> distances, the maximum speed approaches that of light because the time
> taken by processes at either end becomes negligible compared with the
> time spent travelling at the speed of light.
> 
> Sylvia.

Thought has no connection to the speed of light. Consider it...a "spooky
action at a distance".