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Originally Posted by austintorn@aol.com

Graybeard,

The post was coincidental—it took many hours to think about and compose, but thanks for giving answers of accidents before I even asked. You must have quantum thinking! Or we are on the same wavelength, carried halfway around the world by some EM waves from your job.

Dear Austin, Prof and Graybeard:

Michael and I had a related communication, about 'instanaeity' (no more 'speed', but rather a timeless event of direc communication for which there is no known explanation):

Profound thoughts are faster than light. - 06-02-2007, 03:43 AM



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Originally Posted by mkirkpatrick
Imagine that if you were an astronaut and that you had landed on a planet say
in the solar system of Proximi Centuri our nearest star,outside of the sun,and that you needed some vital information,and that you needed it in order to return to the earth,well you would almost certainly be in for a long wait,because even at light speed,a two way conversation would take eight point four years,by that time you would no likely be dead.But if the communication was mind to mind,via telepathy,then communication would be instantanous,and be of much greater use,for mind to mind communication cancels out time and of course space,which is not that surprising,as they do not exist in the first place.compared to thought light would move at a snails pace,if at all?Time and space areall illusions,and soon this fact,and fact it most certainly is,will be universally accepted and then we will be that much closer to what Is.And move away from that which is not.

kind regards,michael.

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Dear Michael:
There's a lot more to this (consciousness being instantaneous) but for the moment this is what I could locate in google:


Scholarly articles for schools of fish moving maneuvering simultaneously


Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model - Reynolds - Cited by 1389
Aerial Observation of Feeding Behavior in Four Baleen ... - Watkins - Cited by 8
Schooling dynamics of Norwegian spring spawning ... - Nottestad - Cited by 33
Craig Reynolds: Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed ...

Flocks and related synchronized group behaviors such as schools of fish or .... In real flight, turning and moving happen continuously and simultaneously. ...
www.cs.toronto.edu/~dt/siggraph97-course/cwr87/ - 65k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Straight Dope Staff Report: How does a flock of birds wheel and ...

The highly coordinated movements of flocks of birds or schools of fish are among ... These "maneuver waves" could move in any direction through the flock, ...
www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mflockswoop.html - 12k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this


Check out the rest of these posts at your leisure. There's more information on it but for the time being this is all I could locate.

Thanks for the usual inspiration.

Regards, RP