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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