Another reason (among many) why I became disenchanted with and had to “invent” .

Warren Sturgis McCulloch, the co-inventor of the first computational model of a that was the precursor for and , uses a racial slur to incorrectly suggest that Cybernetics is somehow the result of the “interbreeding” between the Natural and the Artificial in the preface he wrote for Gordon Pask’s book:

goodreads.com/en/book/show/396

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Knowing #McCulloch to be one of those writers well-read in the Classics who tends to use words in their original senses, where miscegenation may connote nothing more than mixed genus, I would not without further evidence convict him of a slur here.

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Yes, a "classic" indeed. The word was coined and used for the first time in 1864 in a racist hoax to discredit Lincoln.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegen

He could have used other words like mix, combine, merge, amalgamate, ... instead of such an obscure one.

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