WHAT IS CYBERNETICS? — MacKAY 407 



are referring rather to the personal significance — the point — of the 

 activity whose mechanical aspect the scientist may successfully ex- 

 plain. Thus the religious account not only leaves room for the mecha- 

 nistic — it leaves a need for it (and vice versa) if justice is to be done 

 to all aspects of the human being. To rest content with the mecha- 

 nistic explanation would be to miss the point, rather in the way that 

 an electronic explanation of the activity of a computing machine 

 (though complete in itself) would miss the point that an equation 

 was being solved. 



In this sense man remains, indeed, a mystery; but that mystery 

 stands wholly apart from any puzzlement we feel about the mecha- 

 nism of his brain. 



