It's easy to forget in this fractured world what we all share as citizens of the planet. Every one of us: from Socrates to Marilyn Monroe, from Mary Shelley to Genghis Khan, from Nelson Mandela to Florence Nightingale, from Lucrezia Borgia to the nameless refugee adrift on the sea, breathe air, eat food, love, hate, fear, touch, see and hear. The details may depend on when and where we are, but the senses and emotions are essentially the same. How we react to, interpret, and answer each question will have as many responses as there are grains of sand on all the beaches of the world, but we all understand the questions, "How do you feel about that?", "Does that taste good? ", "Are you frightened? "At a time when Artificial Intelligence is set to replace so many aspects of what we have for so long considered to be quintessentially human, it's time to consider what we are and recognize - despite all our magnificent variety - the experiences that we are and that bind us as a species.