January 14, 1969

Mr. W. HM. MeKeeman
239 Meadow Road
Santa Cruz, California

Dear Bill:

Thank you for your nete on my column. In fact I think you peamseived
that my subject was simply a different one from the one that nags
you. .

I am enclosing aome of my own previous writings that may give you
an idea of the drift of my thoughta. I should be very cautious in
attempting to write about this to a philosophically unprepared
audience which is almost certain to misconstrue the intention of
such discussion.

I am not sure that the nagging problem has as much content to it
as I used to think myself. I don't see a pitched battle between
man and machines for supremacy, for I don't see either the indivi-
dual man or the individual machine as the relawant unit. Hy think-
ing 19 not my terminology runs close to the lines advocated in
Julian Huxley's collection " The Humanist Frame''.

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics
JL:lh
Encl.