Babbage located intelligence in the mind not the attentive crafting body

The topic for the discussion is about Babbage’s view on where is intelligence located – min or the crafting body.  Let discuss this with reference to Simon Schaffer and Zimmerman’s article.

The development of the modern computer woes a debt to Babbage .  He developed planes for an analytical engine to compute.

He was not very comfortable with computations done by the human computers.  He wanted this to be replaced by mechanical engine. This can sensed from his quote 

   “I wish to the God these calculations had been executed by steam”

Babbage began to turn his ideas to reality.

However in the mid 1800’s the idea of a machine replacing  human calculators (Computers) must have seemed a unreal.

In the defecating Duck, by vaucancon tries to stimulate the physical and mechanical of a duck.

In other words, mechanical devices have substituted machine fir simpler tools or for bodily labor.   But the invention by Babbage (analytical engine) sub substitutes mechanical performances fira ba intellectual process.

In other words Babbage’s invention puts a mechanical engine in the place of the Human Calculator.

Intelligence is defines by the ‘mind’ because the bodily labour can be done by machines and Babbage was the one who wanted to substitute mind using machine.

Schafer viewed the machine intelligence is highlighted if the labour running is seen invisible or of low significance.

From another quote from Babbage life

   “My right to dispose, ass I will , of such intensions cannot be contested; it is more scared in its nature than any hereditary of acquired property, for they are the absolute creations of my own mind”

By this he makes a worker in the factory a ‘Slave if the machines ’

Babbage outs machines between the mind and body, as the workers are its slave while mind triumphs over the machine.

Babbage  gave more importance to data and did not care about where is comes from.

This clearly shows that according to Babbage the owner if an article is one who designs it rather than who crafts it so it clearly states the importance he gives to the mint than the crafting body.

Gokul Krishna

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