Mathew: “Only three of us decided to adopt names for the purpose of interacting with you, when on our (evolutionary) world all of us had only numbers. You have met with Dorothy, you earlier met with Clair, and you know me well. This is Mathew. It was one of our number, one of the remaining seven of my platoon, who assisted you yesterday, and he is perfectly at ease with just having a number. On this world people object to being ‘just a number’. On our home world it is seen as efficient to use numbers for many things, including names. | Mathew: “Only three of us decided to adopt names for the purpose of interacting with you, when on our (evolutionary) world all of us had only numbers. You have met with Dorothy, you earlier met with Clair, and you know me well. This is Mathew. It was one of our number, one of the remaining seven of my platoon, who assisted you yesterday, and he is perfectly at ease with just having a number. On this world people object to being ‘just a number’. On our home world it is seen as efficient to use numbers for many things, including names. |