Daneel listens, frowning slightly. The nudity of Betazoids can hardly shock him; taboos vary greatly even in human societies, after all. And for all the unpleasant memories of Sarek, it's as interesting to him as anything else.

"And yet, for all the trait's rarity, it was merely a case of friend Giskard passing a programming matrix to me. I have wondered, on occasion, if it were possible to impress such a matrix upon a human mind, would telepathy result there as well?"