Or you can just use a number. Because unlike names, you can assume one thing about individuals in a population and that is that they are countable. You still j

Or you can just use a number. Because unlike names, you can assume one thing about individuals in a population and that is that they are countable. You still just need 33 bits of information to identify any human on the planet, anyway. (post-singularity, evolved into an ever-merging amorphous network of consciousnesses, we can use multidimensional fractal subsets of R^n, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there)