7 BIOCOMPUTER LANGUAGE
You're beginning to see how much the mind is really
like a computer, incredibly like a computer. Except that
it has tens of thousands of times more capacity than
any other computer in existence, for it's size. In actual
fact we have already mentioned that we have a
I tremendous over-abundance of hardware and a vast
shortage of positive software programs that will
I actually help us to accomplish our goals.
Like a conventional computer you have to pro-
gram into the computer in order to get output. Input
equals output. Garbage in equals garbage out.
Imagine that you have a little robot in front of you
that can serve drinks to your guests, answer the
telephone and open the door. Imagine that it has little
arms and legs and it sweeps around gracefully on your
living room floor. Your job is to program the little robot
and you're in the process of writing the software. You're
writing a software program that will allow the robot to
playa simple game of ball with your children. What
you do is put a rubber ball in the robots hand. Let's give
the robot a program. Let's say the program says, "I will
drop the rubber ball." You are convinced that you have
started to create a good program. Let's take a closer
look. "I will drop the rubber ball." Really and truly
what the robot's saying is that he will drop the rubber