108 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? is like looking at a car factory from space. You can see cars and people going into the factory but you can’t read the owner’s manual. We need to be able to see at least 10 million times more detail than our current technologies allow to see a thought. A Quick Tour Now that we understand how to look inside the brain, let’s take a tour around it. The brain is a highly distributed thinking machine. Some things, such as hearing, are located in specific places while others, like the enjoyment of music, are spread out. Our eyes work as an extension of the brain and use a specialized type of nerve cell. Light falls on the retina and stimulates these cells, causing nerve impulses to run along the optic nerve into the center of the Frontal Lobe em Parietal Lobe Motorfpeech | ~< es F | | \ \X areaff Broca >> peecth) p Centrey— 7 a | Kobets NS OK cipitz ermmporal Lobe“ 4 ie —S Fe sl bb g y S ee aN Pons SS Medulla oblongata / * _ Cergbellum — The Brain HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015798