HOW YOUR SUCCESS MECHANISM WORKS
"You" are not a machine.
But new discoveries in the science of Cybernetics all
point to the conclusion that your physical brain and nervous
system make up a servo-mechanism which "You"
use, and which operates very much like an electronic computer,
and a mechanical goal-seeking device. Your brain
and nervous system constitute a goal-striving mechanism
which operates automatically to achieve a certain goal,
very much as a self-aiming torpedo or missile seeks out
its target and steers its way to it. Your built-in servomechanism
functions both as a "guidance system" to automatically
steer you in the right direction to achieve certain
goals, or make correct responses to environment, and
also as an "electronic brain" which can function automatically
to solve problems, give you needed answers, and
provide new ideas or "inspirations." In his book The
Computer and the Brain, Dr. John von Newmann says
that the human brain possesses the attributes of both the
analogue and the digital computer.
The word "Cybernetics" comes from a Greek word
which means literally, "the steersman."
Servo-mechanisms are so constructed that they automatically
"steer" their way to a goal, target, or "answer."