As the article states, Cybernetics as originally conceived makes no distinctions about the physical (or otherwise) nature of the underlying processes it models, and it was explicitly expected to unify the math of feedback and control in biological as well and mechanical systems.
The fictional "Bionic Man", et. al., was an exploration in the popular imagination of how this might result in e.g. artificial limbs and organs that worked like the real thing and, in the stories at least, even improved on them.
In any event, what this article describes could be called cellular bionics.
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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics:_Or_Control_and_Co...
Servomechanisms existed way earlier than 1948, so did analog computers - navy ships in WWII extensively used both in gun control, to move the guns and calculate balistic trajectories, etc. Wiener merely wrote down existing knowledge, and suggested it could also be applied to humans.
> Wiener merely wrote down existing knowledge, and suggested it could also be applied to humans.
A little more than that.
> During World War II, his work on the automatic aiming and firing of anti-aircraft guns caused Wiener to investigate information theory independently of Claude Shannon and to invent the Wiener filter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener#During_and_afte...
But you're absolutely right that "original control systems math" is older than cybernetics, well met.