^This Year, 3 days after my birthday, They did it. Japanese scientists have measured the Speed of Thought. Here is a video. This is a single thought captured in a Zebrafish' brain. The video is beautiful – black background with a flourescent purple dot that you can see thought moving around in a very clear pattern.

Zebrafish is a clear see through fish. They measured increases in concentrations of Calcium IONS, which is what happens wherever a neuron is firing. They measured Directive-selective tectile neurons by sticking flouresscent die on a particular GENE that notices changes to their visual environment. The tectile part of the brain is where auditory and visual reflexes happen. They put a food source in. Right eye measured it, the ieft side of the brain had the activity. They created a new version of a tool called GCaMP7a which they was JUST made sensitive enough to capture something as tiny as little Calcium Ions.

My latest heros are: Akira Muto, Masamichi Ohkura, Gembu Abe, Junichi Nakai and Koichi Kawakami. Thank you Smithsonian Magazine for publishing this piece, and Current Biology for publishing the study. Thank you
1 Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Genetics, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan
2 Department of Genetics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan
3 Brain Science Institute, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama 338-8570, Japan

for giving these people jobs so that they can come together and work on this project.

Watching a single thought travel in Real Time is something I knew I'd see someday, but just didn't know when. I had the same experience when I saw my first video of an Electron: Something they told me, as a kid, we'd probably never be able to see. I knew "They" were wrong. I knew someday we'd see it. I knew someday I'd see it. And They were wrong. And I was right. Vindicated after 30 years. An ancient dream fulfilled and exactly relevant to my project. -Kenneth Udut, Naples, FL USA 5/26/13^