# How fast is the speed of thought?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Seena Mathew
- Year: 2020
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Psychology and the brain, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/seena_mathew_how_fast_is_the_speed_of_thought)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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. \[Directed by Andrew Foerster, narrated by Bethany Cutmore-Scott\].

## Lectures

1. [How fast is the speed of thought?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/seena_mathew_how_fast_is_the_speed_of_thought/66ef1d08418a), 5 min (TED's player)