End of film clip.

Let’s summarize what we’ve just learned about the

components of the brain.
One incontestable fact we must accept: the brain is the most complex
part of the human body.[3] We’d like to add our bit: some brains are more
complex than others; this is why we have individuals who are more complicated
than others and hence difficult to understand.
The brain weighs only three pounds but this lightweight mass holds our
intelligence, puts some sense to all five senses, sets our bodies in motion and
directs our behavior. Taking all the brains of our fellow human beings and
putting them together would enable us to define civilization and encapsulate the
story of humanity.
Since much knowledge has been gained from the study of the brain in the
last two to three decades, Steven Pinker says that the United States government
thought it appropriate to designate the 1990s as the Decade of the Brain. He
quips, “But there will never be a Decade of the Pancreas.”[4] This is because
the brain enjoys special status. That special status resides in the brain’s ability to
make humans see, feel, think, choose and act – and calls it information
processing.[5]
Just as the cell is the basic unit of human life, the brain is made up of
three major units:
Forebrain
Midbrain
Hindbrain
Forebrain - this is the most highly developed section of the brain. It
contains the cerebrum and other structures. When people look at pictures of the
brain, the first thing they usually see is the cerebrum which is located at the top
of the brain where most of a person’s intellectual activities come from. It houses
your memories, makes you capable of planning, imagining and thinking. It is
the part that assists you in recognizing your friends and family, enjoying a
movie
and playing solitaire.
Midbrain – this is located in the topmost part of the brainstem and
controls our eye movements and other voluntary movements.[6] If you recall
our film clip, when the pilot kept blinking his eyes to look out in the dark skies