ESP and the Question Advanced Sensor Technology: A Transcendentalist Analysis

摘要

Sensor technologies are all encompassing and critical to this digital era. It has helped man to remotely gain active control over valued asset and otherwise, not constraint to time and space. The dynamics and efficiency of the technologies as invented by man no doubt has brought simplicity to the quest for continuous unraveling of mysteries posed by nature whilst man transcends the non-given(ness) of nature from the mere given. Acknowledging science as an enterprise set-out to unravel mysteries, and technology implying a sort of development; extra sensory perception (ESP) as discussed herewith evaluates the fundamentals of sensor technologies with cognizance of cybernetics, whilst bringing to lime-light the limitations of machines of today, demonstrating its sole reliance on programmed sense perception, devoid of rationality. It is an epistemological analysis of possible synthesis of two main faculties of knowledge viz. empiricism and rationalism. This intellectual voyage pinpoints the fact that advanced sensor technologies are what they are today and would be in future because of what its author of existence (man) has made it to be, and thereby validates the maxim of Protagoras the Greek philosopher, that "man is the measure of all things". The task herewith is to unscramble engineering asset management from lenses of metaphysics of engineering where advanced sensor technology is the object of inquiry.