space capsule has to fight to retain the integrating sense of 
touch. Our mechanical technologies for extending and 
separating the functions of our physical beings have brought 
us near to a state of disintegration by putting us out of touch 
with ourselves. It may very well be that in our conscious inner 
lives the interplay among our senses is what constitutes the 
sense of touch. Perhaps touch  is not just skin contact with 
things , but the very life of things in the mind ? The Greeks had 
the notion of a consensus or a faculty of “common sense” that 
translated each sense into each other sense, and conferred 
consciousness on man. Today, when we have extended all parts 
of our bodies and senses by technology, we are haunted by the 
need for an outer consensus of technology and experience that 
would raise our communal lives to the level of a world-wide 
consensus. When we have achieved a world-wide 
fragmentation, it is not unnatural to think about a world-wide