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In my view this is one of the most serious misconceptions about the entire field of machine learning. Sure, if you zoom out far enough, everything is a number or vector or matrix, but it's rare that such a representation is the most convenient or precise one for formulating the learning problem.
Yeah, it shows how a reductionist viewpoint tends to dead end. But so hard to represent stuff in analog...