ball, will sometime, but not now. Will means in the
future. The robot in effect will be saying, "standing by,
standing by, standing by, waiting for instructions."
Let's insert another program into the robot. This
time you write, "I can drop the rubber ball." Again the
little robot won't drop the rubber ball. Can means the
future, I can do it, but I'm not going to now. The robot
stands there saying, "standing by, standing by, waiting
for instructions." The next program you write for the
little robot says, "I HAVE dropped the rubber ball."
Immediately the robot drops the rubber ball. That was
the command the little robot was waiting for!
Recently I picked up a book in a Los Angeles
bookstore and started browsing. The book was about
Cybernetics and Semantics, it looked quite good until I
got to nearly the last chapter where there were various
individuals goal contracts. I couldn't believe my eyes!
Practically every single goal started with I will, "I will
earn $50,000 a year," or "I will be a successful teacher of
psychology," or "I will be punctual for all my meetings."
Every single one of these goals would have the effect of
putting the biocomputer on standby. The guy who had
written the book had missed the whole point himself.
Semant ics, the meaning of words! All the books
that you have ever read on the subject of goal
accomplishment have told you to word your goals
in the present tense, now you know why. The
biocomputer relies on concise instructions. The
biocomputer has a language of it's own.
Your mind is just like a computer, it is teleological
(goal seeking). It understands the program only in the
way that you have inserted it. Let me give you a few
examples. Ron hits Jim is a very different program to
Jim hits Ron. Only three words but all according to
how you insert them into the biocomputer would give
two totally different outcomes. The biocomputer