How fast is the speed of thought? - Seena Mathew

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Travel into the brain to see how its network of neurons transmit your thoughts and what factors determine how quickly you think.
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Your mortal enemy has captured you and hooked you up to a bizarre experiment. He’s extended your nervous system with one very long neuron to a target about 70 meters away. At some point, he’s going to fire an arrow. If you can then think a thought to the target before the arrow hits it, he’ll let you go. So who wins that race? Seena Mathew examines the speed of thought.
Lesson by Seena Mathew, directed by Andrew Foerster.
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@sd6626 3 года назад

“ The human brain is the most complex thing in the universe”- Human brain

@thelosttomato4020 3 года назад

@Jason King Really?

@nicolasbourbaki314 3 года назад

"Sitting on your own shoulder is the most impossible thing in the cosmos"

@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz102 3 года назад

@Jason King you can tell me that dolphins are smarter than humans when they accomplish something amazing lol

@ultragamer7526 3 года назад

@@thelosttomato4020 their wrong

@fatemeshoja2243 3 года назад

@@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz102 i was about to write the same😅they can never make a car or write a book or make the world as we did

@sreejasrivaram8250 3 года назад

I hate it when my mortal enemy kidnaps me and lectures me about neurons.

@aggelos9915 3 года назад

Don’t we all?

@thefuturegamer5159 3 года назад

Happen to me quite a few times

@fanboyhater832 3 года назад

It happens to me on a regualar basis, my biology teacher

@shaheen4663 3 года назад

Ikr when will he understand they are dysfunctional after all the depression?

@sreejasrivaram8250 3 года назад

That fellow always gets on my nerves.

@pashi47 3 года назад

No wonder the heroes always win, because the villains are busy learning about neurons.

@karolinakuc4783 3 года назад

But hey villain won in the end as he killed the hero with 100 tons block. The only thing he lost is his ration.

@vaughnjohnson8767 3 года назад

@@karolinakuc4783 how do you know he died. The hero must have tons of plot armor too

@kevinkong2060 3 года назад

@@vaughnjohnson8767 Why can't he have weapons on too?

@megasonichunterramirez3231 3 года назад

Are we the baddies?

@vaughnjohnson8767 3 года назад

@@kevinkong2060 nobody said that he couldnt

@ashnastic55 3 года назад

speed of thought when my crush says hii *decreased to -90

@candice2562 3 года назад

@archanadesai471 3 года назад

trueeeee

@graciacarolina1557 3 года назад

Lol

@BadBoiFX 3 года назад

Simp

@shreenidhhi8633 3 года назад

Uwu

@lloydaran 3 года назад

"The distance is about 1 meter in someone who is 5 feet 5 inches" Both Americans and Europeans: *visible confusion*

@acedragon1456 3 года назад

So, being English for the win? I understood this sentence perfectly

@kalimul2143 3 года назад

@@acedragon1456 the joke is that there are two units of measurement, being the metric and customary systems respectively. since Americans and Europeans use different systems of measurement, they are "visibly confused"

@ACdeputy 3 года назад

@@kalimul2143 Well Americans know 1 meter is 1 yard 3 inches and 5 ft 5 inches is 1.96 meters just saying.

@ACdeputy 3 года назад

(These are approximations)

@abeke5523 3 года назад

@@ACdeputy 5 ft 5 inches is actually 165 centimeters, you're way off

@SATYANSH 3 года назад

Ted Ed ALWAYS answers the "annoying questions" I asked as a child 😭😭

@ForteExpresso 3 года назад

@Physics Man does astrology really work?

@shinyagumon7015 3 года назад

Well than they weren't annoying!

@potatinator9831 3 года назад

@@ForteExpresso I don’t think so. At one point the stars will be in such different places (relative to Earth) that we won’t be able to recognize the constellations of these days. Also I find it hard to believe that celestial objects can have an effect on us, an insignificant speck millions of light years away.

@alchemist6819 3 года назад

@@ForteExpresso *_NO!!_*

@pedroalitovar6624 3 года назад

@@potatinator9831 What about the planets and their satellites? That is, we all know that the Moon affects the Earth in different ways: the waves of the sea, its gravity, and even in the way the attitude of some living beings and the functioning of their organism, such as the sleep and wake cycles, etc. It makes sense that in some cases these space bodies (the nearest to us, at least) influence ourselves behavior and the environment in which we develop. Sure, I'm just raising an idea. I don't think astrology helps you predict your future, your past, or whatever. That is already divination. But the idea of that astronomical bodies can influence you without you realizing it, I see it feasible. And at least scientific studies corroborate the fact of these sleep cycles, and the full moon, to say the least.

@blueberrychocolate4238 3 года назад

How fast is the speed of thought? As fast as I click on TED-Ed videos.

@vigridr_ 3 года назад

I was about to write the same comment

@archanadesai471 3 года назад

exactly

@archanadesai471 3 года назад

but actually thoughts are faster

@__ethan__ 3 года назад

Yessir

@anniethebulldog4948 3 года назад

Yup

@mrniceguy4277 3 года назад

For those who didn't now, 70 m is actually a shooting distance in archery

@gabrielstaniszewski8933 3 года назад

It was 17m, I think

@mayven1556 3 года назад

Wasn't it 17 or was it me?

@mrniceguy4277 3 года назад

@@mayven1556 70 m is "a" but not THE distance. So if you are new to archery or if you have to shoot indoors (Winter season), then 17 m is an option, too :)

@prathameshbanda2351 2 года назад

70 m? Arrows path must be a projectile i guess

@midimusicforever 3 года назад

Gotta be the weirdest thought experiment since Schrödinger's cat.

@envycollar 3 года назад

no cause schrodinger's cat is both alive and dead while this one has a definitive answer

@SandmanURL 3 года назад

@@envycollar Not if your axon diameter is small

@aakashdadwal6689 3 года назад

That's what religion is, a thought experiment!

@tenzinc1514 3 года назад

@@aakashdadwal6689 Not if your an atheist that is!

@lietpi 3 года назад

Thought experiment...I see what you did there

@firstnamelastname512 3 года назад

I came to the comment section for the jokes. My neurons aren't dissapointed.

@subairtunde1461 3 года назад

Me too

@ophie71 3 года назад

Yup

@joeltan7074 3 года назад

How fast is the speed of thought Well, during my maths exam... well let’s just say it’s slow

@archanadesai471 3 года назад

no not for me

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 3 года назад

@@archanadesai471 good for you

@mr.knowitall5019 3 года назад

@@archanadesai471 What grade are you in?

@2stepssane-_- 3 года назад

@@archanadesai471 mine for only geometry

@sujatasharma8560 3 года назад

@Joel Sev No, not for me.

@leonguyen896 3 года назад

Fun fact: the human mind can't summon more than 60 hamburgers per second.

@mayo-neighs 3 года назад

It can't summon any actually

@zyansheep 3 года назад

Can it summon the idea of 60 hamburgers per second?

@MassimoPugiDelta 3 года назад

No worries, the fastfood clerk will take much longer to deliver it 😅

@vaughnjohnson8767 3 года назад

@@MassimoPugiDelta lol, just depends on the clerk.

@shumeister1059 3 года назад

How to deliver? Gotta build a semi auto burger canon. Then you can have 60 burgers a second summoned. This will put fast back into the fast-food industry.

@Cheeetos352 3 года назад

The mortal enemy is literally just Edna Mode and Shrek’s baby boy.

@karolinakuc4783 3 года назад

Oh really I always thought it was Syndrome's offspring

@vaughnjohnson8767 3 года назад

@@karolinakuc4783 oof.

@monochromeart7311 3 года назад

to me it looks like the Grinch's great great great great great great grand son

@vaughnjohnson8767 3 года назад

@@monochromeart7311 you mean, great great great great great great great great great grand son?

@monochromeart7311 3 года назад

@@vaughnjohnson8767 ah yes, my bad, thx for fixing me.

@aryanroy9050 3 года назад

1:25 I love how his mortal enemy is torturing him.

@hardikpande6970 3 года назад

I thought about this with the speed of thought!

@archanadesai471 3 года назад

your iq =100009

@thefamousarthur 3 года назад

HA HA HA

@shirleygomes2004 3 года назад

When a 5 minute TED-Ed video is more educational than many years of school.

@kumarshivam1234 3 года назад

Reason is because ted ed tells in simple words and interesting animations

@novemberninth4392 3 года назад

@@kumarshivam1234 I wish my school used TED-Ed videos in their lectures, especially with online learning right now.

@kumarshivam1234 3 года назад

@@novemberninth4392 same

@kinocchio 3 года назад

4:47 Top 10 anime betrayals.

@nutsuckerberg7150 3 года назад

Conclusion: Very fast

@Turd13s 3 года назад

thanks

@harshvardhan4766 2 года назад

Really fast

@MrKimKim 3 года назад

How fast is the speed of Notifications? Answer: extremely slow

@m41r34d 3 года назад

VERY TRUE

@pyrofestimo 3 года назад

*RU-vid notifications

@spambots235 3 года назад

That propic is like parashockX

@craigoda4284 3 года назад

True

@japanmiidai1590 3 года назад

Exeption: BUSY CHAT WITH NOTIFICATIONS ON

@blueeye2281 3 года назад

"Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe." -Michio Kaku, my favourite scientist. *Well my brother is one of them*

@jeeshaanjoshi 3 года назад

Hey, I don't understand what it means. Could you explain it to me?

@ApahtieParty 3 года назад

@@jeeshaanjoshi Brain

@abderrahmanemadini7085 3 года назад

@@jeeshaanjoshi just try to sit on your shoulders

@rayanrahmani9838 3 года назад

@@jeeshaanjoshi Your brain is sitting on your soldiers, and it’s incredibly complicated

@plutoniumisotope205 3 года назад

@@rayanrahmani9838 how?

@kamalhasan9066 3 года назад

Watching this from Bangladesh. I can't express in words how much this channel has helped me to improve my English listening skills. thanks, forever grateful. keep coming with more of these informative and thought provoking videos.

@DG-gx4sg 3 года назад

Barely anything moves in my head, it's like my brain cells are all social distancing from each other lol

@irsaa.3473 3 года назад

Ted ed: "How fast is the speed of thought" Me: *"I don't need sleep, I need answer"*

@billyguns6975 3 года назад

And I have an exam in a week :/

@johnather 3 года назад

Wdym 2 am is the perfect time to be watching this

@violetchand 3 года назад

ADHD kids: you wanna see some real speed...

@jimitpanchal1288 3 года назад

Do ADHD person have faster thinking process?

@krustytheaustralian1095 3 года назад

Lol

@meryemcifci4164 3 года назад

@@jimitpanchal1288 nah we just think everything together lol

@jimitpanchal1288 3 года назад

@@meryemcifci4164 lol

@rattled1557 3 года назад

@@meryemcifci4164 serious question, does adhd can be cured/dampened by nicotine?

@charmsly9506 3 года назад

love this channel, kept me unbored during the summer

@Ishaan181 3 года назад

It is autumn mate

@archanadesai471 3 года назад

exactly

@AveryTalksAboutStuff 3 года назад

*How fast is the speed of thought??* My ADHD: *Running from one thought to the next like Dash putting that tack on his teacher's chair*

@vaalarivanvaalariva1388 3 года назад

Hi. I'm ur subscriber! Nice to see u here!

@AveryTalksAboutStuff 3 года назад

@@vaalarivanvaalariva1388 Aw, thank you so much! Good to see you!

@ashnastic55 3 года назад

Its much more relaxing to listen to the Ted-Ed narrators than wasting time on ASMRs

@shivpatel7506 3 года назад

It’s as slow as a sloth during a test and as fast as a cheetah when talking to my mom. Oops.

@Resident--a 3 года назад

Here's a fun fact: your thoughts not only have velocity but also have mass. A very, VERY miniscule amount of mass. But mass nonetheless. Which means that you can actually calculate the impact force each thought has as it passes by. We also know that the average human mind generates roughly 50-70 thoughts per minute. This is amplified by overthinking as well. A symptom usually brought on by anxiety, depression and a handful of other mental disturbances. On average, the overthinking mind can generate 2-3x the normal amount of thoughts. Between 100-150 thoughts per minute. Considering that each one is firing off at roughly 240/kilometers per hour, and each one has a mass of roughly 1 in 10 trillion. We can estimate the give force of the overall impact. I won't bore you with all the math behind it, but all told, a depressed mind that is overthinking at roughly 90 thoughts per minute will have generated enough force to simulate the force of a dart being thrown into your skin divided by 2. Every. Single. Minute. It doesn't sound like much, but try to imagine someone pricking you with a needle every single minute that you're depressed. Which is on the more lighter side. If you've got severe depression and suffer from anxiety and have troubles with overthinking, you can expect to be 1/3 closer to that sense of having a dart flung at you with full force. Again, every single minute.

@jsbach347 3 года назад

My brain watching this: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!

@unihorn458 3 года назад

I really loved the Animation in this video! I've known this channel for a long time by now, and it teaches me a lot. Keep up the great work, and thanks to all people involved in the creation of this videos! ♡

@HerMi.T 3 года назад

Now people will understand that this is misconception that speed of thought is faster than light. Thanks Ted ed.

@theshach100 2 года назад

The speed of thought is indeed faster than the speed of light

@HerMi.T 2 года назад

@@theshach100 lol first i want to ask you that what is the meaning of speed of thought? If you are talking about connection and transmission between our brain cells and body. Then no, Speed of thought is not more than speed of light. It could be close but didn't equal to spped of thought. But some people argue that it is not speed of thought. Thought is not dependent on transmission. It means you think something which is happened in instant but it is pretty vague and unexplained thing. You can't call it faster than light without any proof.

@kiloperson5680 2 года назад

@@theshach100 NOTHING (except 3) IS FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT

@RockerGo24 3 года назад

Thank you Ted-Ed for a wonderful piece of information. You enlighten me. Thank you for the knowledge.

@anushrao882 3 года назад

Well, I have a question. Does it take the same time for unanticipated events to get processed or does anticipation matter?

@reverse_engineered 2 года назад

Anticipation or "priming" matters. Lots of examples. A fun one I did as a kid in class. If someone is eating a bag of chips, grab it out of their hands; you can easily do it if they don't suspect anything. Then try it again, but this time tell them you are going to do it. They will almost certainly clench their hand before you can reach them. Without priming, it takes a long time for the brain to realize that you are about to grab the bag out of their hands; there is no survival instinct that kicks in. You will most likely have grabbed it before they even realize what is happening. But if they know to expect it, they can react in much less time than it takes you to complete the physical movement towards them. This is different from other reflexes like how we blink if we see something coming at our face. Those kinds of responses occur before we are consciously aware of the danger. Again, lots of experiments demonstrating this sort of behaviour. Priming shows up in more than just visuomotor responses. It's a common problem when creating a survey. How you word a question or what other topics you discuss first has a measurable effect on how you will answer the following questions. For example, being reminded of religion will make you more honest and more altruistic; even if you aren't religious. Seeing higher prices before lower ones will make the lower ones seem objectively low, even if they are much higher than you would normally see for a similar item elsewhere. There are many ways to take advantage of this and ways to control for it and avoid it in testing.

@anushrao882 2 года назад

Thank you for taking the time to write this answer!

@brunalemos433 3 года назад

This channel is amazing, thank you for this gift!

@alkakochhar3967 3 года назад

Thank you Ted ed to enlighten us with such great lessons!!

@yeah8577 3 года назад

Madly in love with the narrator's accent ❤

@creativepsyche2686 3 года назад

I always used to ponder on this topic Ted ed thank you so much for this🥺🌟😍😘🥰❤️❤️

@thedevil1667 3 года назад

This was so helpful! Thank you!

@salamorda 2 года назад

This visualization is just great and beautiful:) Thank you

@piotrgpt-4178 3 года назад

I clicked faster than light and still not fast enough to be first.

@archanadesai471 3 года назад

faster than light?aight

@pouyanpotato8944 3 года назад

@@archanadesai471 ok boomer

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 3 года назад

@@archanadesai471 faster than sound

@vaughnjohnson8767 3 года назад

@@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 light is faster than sound. But who cares anymore?!

@plutoniumisotope205 3 года назад

@@vaughnjohnson8767 r/wooooosh

@zu-tangclan8113 3 года назад

How fast is the speed of thought? Patrick: umm let me think, umm...uhhhhhhhhhhhhh..........🤔🤤🤤

@sotnasoigres315 2 года назад

Fascinating video! Thanks a lot for this.

@barrotem5627 3 года назад

I have always wanted to know this. Thank you !

@joshboye1427 3 года назад

My speed of thought during exams is so fast, sometimes I am unable to stop thinking about random revolutionary thoughts during the whole one hour ...

@obiwankatipaks8533 3 года назад

I remembered when the fastest man in Asgard raced with the personification of thought

@angtasp3640 3 года назад

Animation is amazing as usual ! Kudos to you Ted-ed

@rupzrya 3 года назад

Wow Ted ..i thought about this topic and thought that it doesn't make sense !! Thank you so much for covering it !!!

@Buubje13 3 года назад

My brain when I sent a risky text: *I am speed*

@hekata12 3 года назад

Me after test I have just failed: "Not fast enough"

@kumaylsaleh6948 3 года назад

this channel always answers questions that i have been scolded for in my class from by my teachers

@l.3ok 3 года назад

As always, very useful stuff!

@danzoom 3 года назад

What is 5 feet and 5 inches? And why body height is in imperial, but neuron length is measured in meters?

@user-hq4zk6eg5n 3 года назад

I don't get it either

@cijalrahim6875 3 года назад

165 cms.

@IDSearcher 3 года назад

I guess multiple, international sources were used at the same time

@ryansullivan9192 3 года назад

Did anyone else's foot twitch a little when it showed him hitting the guys knee? Or was it just me lol.

@xeno4162 3 года назад

I learned a lot Ted-Ed, thank you so much. Conclusion was really good :)

@tanvikhare9710 3 года назад

I didn't know I needed this information, thankyou. And, I'm thoroughly enjoying the animation

@sonusanakal9331 3 года назад

If this was the way to study then I would never miss the classes 😂

@srishtisingh7246 3 года назад

Same

@n0nenone 2 года назад

By tying you up?.. we got an M here 😏

@user-st5ir8mg3q 3 года назад

"Our eyes can perceive differences as fast as 13 ms" Hardcore gamers with 240+ hz monitors: "I don't think so"

@sophiahuang7388 3 года назад

Lol

@01IndieCindie 3 года назад

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO

@parthoghosh4135 3 года назад

The only channel which answers all of my weird questions ❤️

@milesbrewis2375 3 года назад

Ngl, my arch enemy seems like a really nice guy

@yeniindarti2836 3 года назад

Oh it's one of my random thoughts that is actually answered by Ted's

@unparalleledpunk6826 2 года назад

Ted Ed never ceases to amaze me by anwering such enigmatic questions.

@cacaktuaaa5695 3 года назад

I love learning like this!

@denis2cute152 3 года назад

This animation is so cute!!

@jigsawproductions6171 3 года назад

“Slow Down”! “I don’t understand”!

@alienrobotcommando 10 месяцев назад

Loved it!

@AbdullahAlMamun-ou3qg 3 года назад

Nice Explanation.

@naveenkumaryadav889 3 года назад

Why did he killed him even if he won 😂 ? ... Btw it was hilarious viewing this video 😂 🙏 ... ❤️

@andreujuanc 3 года назад

"On someone who is 5 foot 5 inches" Seriously? You just mentioned the metric system 1 second ago.

@alex2005z 3 года назад

Ye metric sistem is better

@capncook2006 3 года назад

@@alex2005z who asked

@alex2005z 3 года назад

@@capncook2006 noone

@alex2005z 3 года назад

@@capncook2006 does someone have to ask?

@mantisbrains 2 года назад

@@alex2005z ya😂

@thecuriousvirtuoso6427 3 года назад

Ted ed videos are nowadays kinda regular, taking in first place before speed of thought. Keep it up.👍🏻

@sambosok1704 3 года назад

I was wondering about it! That question’s LITERALLY my Facebook’s bio!

@mysterio952 3 года назад

When me think something a donkey is dancing around a tree

@skeptical_penguin 3 года назад

While this video is quite good, I would also want to know the actual speed of thought - not simply how fast it physically takes to travel inside our bodies. For example, when we just think about things in our own head, with no real physical reaction to it. How do we go about measuring the speed of that?

@jamesscott5407 3 года назад

But what controls thinking them thoughts...why do you think the thoughts you think...how can we measure the speed of that...

@rupeshsharma1251 3 года назад

Te ed gives us the best educational videos and riddles

@sudarsanp1503 Год назад

The experiment and that alien both look crazy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@m-gendy1512 3 года назад

So early (not like the Speed of Thought) but enough to miss the good jokes, sad.

@realfactsscience3925 3 года назад

Random Fact: Australia is wider than the moon. The moon sits at 3400km in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4000km. -RealFacts

@nc_aravindan 3 года назад

So you're saying if we put Australia in the sky and make it float, we can see it like the moon everyday..hmm interesting

@TT-yz7pz 3 года назад

We love you guys, plz never stop😍😍😍

@anniethebulldog4948 3 года назад

Love the quote. Ted ed, my fav teacher

@rishabhmalkani9631 3 года назад

My mom jumps to conclusions faster

@ksaipraneethreddy 3 года назад

So if speed of thought = speed of light , may be we can oversee the future.

@lancethrustworthy 3 года назад

This video gives me an additional chuckle when the mortal enemy's eyes go askew like the cartoon series 'Ed, Edd and Eddy' character, Ed's eyes do. Good video.