Is the entire premise of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) not that you can influence people's thought patterns by using language as code, as instructions?
That's basically my impression, but my understanding is that NLP is not very strongly supported so I'd be leery about using theories from there as if they provided much evidence about the world.
I don't think you need to get so vague though - if you want to communicate a task to a human, you very explicitly use language most of the time (particularly for anything complex). They may not follow your instructions for whatever reason, but the act of communication is done with text.
I don't think you need to get so vague though - if you want to communicate a task to a human, you very explicitly use language most of the time (particularly for anything complex). They may not follow your instructions for whatever reason, but the act of communication is done with text.