If objects with mass can’t exceed the speed of light, could it be that the speed of the mind/thought might do it in some cases?

The firing of neurons doesn’t exceed light speed.

If one considers the speed at which ideas, conclusions, etc., form from raw data, it’s easier to believe that light-speed thinking is possible, though this assumes that the idea or conclusion must proceed logically, step by step, through all the stages in between. However, there is ample reason for believing this does not happen, from the evidence of biases, errors, and other faults of perception. The brain/mind takes shortcuts, uses stereotypes, applies heuristics in achieving conclusions, and is a lousy statistician. The wonder is that we don’t routinely kill ourselves by accident.

One important point, though: we DO NOT use 10% of our brain. That is a load of pseudo-scientific nonsense. We use ALL of our brain. There’s fairly decent coverage of the myth in an extract from Christian Jarrett’s Great Myths of the Brain in the BPS’ The Psychologist.

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