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Brain Signals Move At Speed Of Sound

Signal progression in the brain is roughly at the speed of sound because of cell-to-cell hopping time, so it takes a few hundred milliseconds for a signal to cross the neocortex; consequently nothing in the brain assumes simultaneity — it operates in a paradigm where the world has already moved on, unlike digital computers that assume a globally consistent state.

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Speaker

Joscha Bach

Evidence Quote

Nothing in the brain is assuming that stuff happens simultaneously, everything in the brain is working in a paradigm, where the world has already moved on... It’s quite different paradigm than the one in our digital computers, where we currently assume that your GPU or CPU is pretty much globally in the same state.

Source

Joscha BachLex Fridman Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:31:54 AM

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