This is interesting. It makes me think of an "immersion"[0], as in a generalization of the concept of "embedding" in differential geometry. I share your uneasi

This is interesting. It makes me think of an "immersion"[0], as in a generalization of the concept of "embedding" in differential geometry. I share your uneasiness about mapping words to vectors and agree that it feels as if we're shoehorning some more complex space into a computationally convenient one. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(mathematics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(mathematics)