What is the speed of thought?
There are several “types” of thought and gradients between. Prime thought is instantaneous…it is innately part of a being… and time along with matter and energy and space are not a factor affecting it, and in fact, are effected by it. It has more to do with a “knowing” or a consideration of how things are. Most people recognize some of the gradients of thought which are prompted by reactions to what is observed. This is a slower realm of thought. Something is observed and thoughts result. What different people are aware of is relative to their concept of thought and so you can have variations of the concept of thought depending upon a person’s awareness. Thought actually gets “perverted” into a much slower realm of “thinking” or “figure-figure” as one goes down-scale. A good example could be a sports player or a skilled musician — he or she doesn’t “think” the actions of the activity. Here, there is a closer approximate to a “knowing”. It is closer to an aesthetic wavelength and i
Your question is defeatist in nature — speed, velocity and the like related to matter which is specifically part of our physical world which we sense as stimuli, then as we are able to distinguish characteristics we begin to perceive, but have not yet comprehended (as in repeating or writing a foreign language – we can duplicate the features but don’t understand the meaning). Perception (or percepts) relate to the physical nature around us — once we establish a concept (or category), we begin to enter into thought which is unique and not of the physical realm around us. Pure or true thought (a priori) is cognitive processing which falls outside the nature of our understanding — and that which has no dimensions cannot be measured and cannot be reasoned according to our physics, knowledge or experience. Pure thought has no relationship with time. It simply is. When we try to relate to it we inject physical (relative) characteristics which allow us to use our reason and logic — but al
