Having quite a slow day at work today so I have been giving this some more (concious)thought and would like to postulate;
I believe it may be reasonable to class a thought as a wave function, in which case we could take a 'Schroedinger' approach to the whole thing.
i.e. a concious thought is the thought that has been observed which leaves all other thoughts as being 'crashed wave functions'.
Logically the next step would be to say that, at any one moment in time all possible thoughts exist and once one (mind) becomes aware of a thought all the other (possible) thoughts die, to be reborn again once the concious thought led to some kind of (physical/chemical) action (reaction).
There must exists therefore at anyone time in any one 'mind' an infinitesimal number of possible thoughts. When one becomes aware of a thought (through conciousness) then [infinity-1] thoughts have crashed simultaneaously.
The questions that arise are;
How long does it take for a wave-function to crash?
How do you measure the speed of something that does not actually (physically) travel?
In conclusion I would offer the speed of thought as:
1/[infinity-1], which is infinitesimally small; whatever the unit of measurement and is therefore far greater than the speed of light (which is finite).
[ 19 August 2001: Message edited by: Icarus ]