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   "Robert Scott Martin"  wrote in message   
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   >>> They are wrong, when the light goes out to travel, the darkness is   
   >>> already   
   >>> there to greet it.   
   >   
   > I was thinking of the intertitle from Nosferatu: "And when he crossed the   
   > bridge the shadows came to meet him."   
      
   Methinks shadows and darkness are somewhat differing beasties.   
      
   shadow needs a light source and something obstructing said light.   
   darkness needs nothing.   
      
   In your used quote, it seems more intended to convey a sense of doom.   
   all them wooooowooooooo shadows.   
   Shadows ofcourse appealing to our fear of the unknown.   
      
   > In article <49ef41fa$0$5031$e4fe514c@dreader29.news.xs4all.nl>,   
   > bassos  wrote:   
   >   
   >>?Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.   
   >>No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got   
   >>there   
   >>first, and is waiting for it.?   
   >>- terry pratchett   
   >   
   > Can light think faster than itself or is there a sense in which "light"   
   > (c, the constant) is congruent with "thought?"   
      
   Thought seems to be somewhat more akin to electricity vs magnetism.   
   As in :"Move therefore"   
      
   > My own responses are obviously a bit slower than that.   
      
   There is ionotropic (using ions, fast reaction) and metabotropic (second   
   messager inside a receiving neuron that thus activates it and thus is   
   slower) activation of neurons.   
      
   And well, hormonal can actually take quite long (minutes to hours)   
      
   So pulling the above back to responding :   
   First is the quick reaction (likened here to ionotropic activation) then   
   there is the 'wait a sec, now i see what is meant' (likened to metabotropic   
   activation) and the next day on rereading it :"zomg, how could i have missed   
   that"   
      
   (note that this is analogy, not causality)   
      
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