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…there is no disembodied language. The ideal of a disembodied language is nothing more than, indeed, an idealization, which, as such, misses something. Language is itself part of reality, because there is always a speaker. Whether it is hidden or not, there is always this speaker; be it a human, a book, a carved stone, a computer. There are no phrases that are not said, written, quoted, recorded, remembered, or in some other way embodied in the world.
On the Equality of All Things: Physics and Philosophy, Rovelli, 2026