Huxley linked his latest novel, Island, with one of his most famous novels known as Brave New World. In both novels, Huxley introduces drugs that affect human experiences, one called “soma” and the other “moksha.” The difference between the two drugs is that “soma flattens and dulls the human experience, moksha enhances and brightens it,” which makes some wonder what it means to be “truly human.” Throughout his works, Huxley was aware that “technoscience, particularly biomedical science, could radically alter these aspects of life”