Within a few years all of us will be thinking without brains, feeling with out nerves, seeing and hearing without eyes or ears. Lacking hands and pock ets, we can carry nothing with us, not even credentials of good character. All that we shall have will be what we are. Stripped of all possessions, tradi tions, and apologies, we shall, so it seems now, find ourselves somewhat at a loss to explain ourselves to the universe.