[rebootthesystem]

So you claim an array actually exists in a computer?

OK. Prove it. And you have to do it without laying out a set of rules and conventions that might allow us to interpret a list of bytes as an array.

An array is a fabrication by convention. At the simplest level it is a list of numbers in memory. Adding complexity you can store additional numbers that indicate type size and shape. Adding yet more complexity you can extend that to be lists of memory addresses to other lists of numbers, thereby supporting the concept of each array element storing more than just a byte or a word. And, yet another layer removed you can create a pile of subroutines that allow you to do a bunch of standard stuff with these data structures (sort, print, search, add, subtract, trim, reshape, etc.).

Nowhere in this description does an array exist. There were experimental architectures ages ago that actually defined the concept of arrays in hardware and attempted to build array processors. These lost out to simpler machines where multidimensional arrays could be represented and utilized via convention and software.

Arrays do not exist. If you land in the middle of a bunch of memory and read the data at that location without having access to the conventions used for that processor or language nothing whatsoever tells you that byte or word is part of an n-dimensional array. The best you can say is "The number at location 1234 is 23". No clue about what that might mean at all.