[phlux]

>I am constantly reading that information cannot travel faster than light

(I am not sure if this analogy works - if it is flawed, please help me fix it until it is correct)

Lets assume that you are on a computer connected to another machine that is at the exact furthest opposite possible on the globe, via fiber.

The remote machine will display a question, which you have never seen before and do not know the answer to, but you can read the question and then the answer to the question will be displayed.

Is it impossible that you could not derive an answer to the question fast than the answer could be displayed?

Thus, information (your derived answer) arriving in your head faster than the information arriving on screen as delivered at the speed of light?

My assumption is that information can be derived/created/transferred/understood faster than linear light travel as the processing of thoughts in our minds is semaphoric/symbolic and parrallel - light transmission is serial.