How fast does the mind travel?

Answer 1

The fastest nerve conducts an impulse at 120 metres per second. However transmission speed is related to diameter, and so nerves with a smaller diameter conduct impulses at a much slower speed. In general, the conduction velocity is approximately equal to 6 x axon diameter in micrometres. The constant value of 6 is referred to as the Hursh factor.

Answer 2

The mind doesn't travel in the physical sense like how we measure speed. Thoughts can occur instantaneously and can feel like they travel quickly, but the speed of thought does not have a measurable velocity like how we quantify the speed of physical objects.

Answer 3

No! The speed of thought is not faster that the speed of light.

The reason emerges from the fact that information travels as electrical pulses between neurons in the brain's neural network. So, given the complexity of such a network in addition to the delay and attenuation of the electrical pulses, our thoughts should be processed at a lower speed than the speed of light. Ignoring such condition will result in a processing speed that is equal (at most) to the speed of light. However, a dismissal of these conditions is fallacious.

Answer 4

Thoughts? Very vague. Well, "thoughts" in the physical sense, are the electric signals sent through your nerves to your Brain. So, the speed of light is 299,792,458 m / s and the average speed of your impulses is 750,600 m / s. So, in theory, light is muh faster than your "thoughts".

Answer 5

No.

In fact, the speed of most impulses can be measured with a stop watch. Your neurons are actually electro-chemical relays, receiving electrical impulses which trigger a chemical reaction in the cell, in turn producing an electrical impulse; thus the impulse travels neuron-to-neuron. Different impulses also travel at different rates through different fibres.

Pain signals are the slowest at just over half a metre-per-second while normal tactile impulses can travel at nearly 80 m/s, and motor and muscle-position impulses can travel more than 100 m/s (about 223 miles per hour / 360 kilometres per hour).

The impulses bouncing around inside your brain are only managing a paltry 8-13 m/s (or 20-30 mph / 32-48 kph). The speed of thought is slower than the speed of action!

Light travels at nearly 300,000,000 (three hundred million) m/s, or over 670,000,000 mph- that's over 1,000,000,000kph (a billion kilometres per hour)!

The difference is insurmountable.

Answer 6

Our thoughts can travel anywhere in any speed. It can travel to Pluto in less that one second.

Answer 7

About 4 million times the speed of light in free space! According to certain Masters of yoga.

Answer 8

aproximatley 1500 times faster than the speed of light.

Not at all near this speed. I have heard different answers, but it can be between 0.5m/s and 100m/s

Answer 9

the messages your brain creates to tell your body to move are faster than ligthning and feeling and pain travel at over 1700 mph

Answer 10

pretty fast