Words Weigh

Non-living objects communicate through physics (the 4 fundamental forces, chemical bonds, etc)

Non-human living objects (microscopic/animals/birds/etc.) communicate with a little more sophisticated ways, but they’re not self-aware (not to level of humans). If some exceptional animal did learn to be self-aware, like a 🐬 or an 🦧, what it speaks wouldn’t be understandable by its friends.

  1. Human communication is a highly sophisticated mechanism, thanks to the big brain. This communication is a result of years of understanding of reality . Hence our words reflect the real world and its laws.
  2. Also, since humans are the most self-aware species, the words carry a lot of importance. Now, some animals can sing and have complicated sounds as well, but they’re neither self-aware, nor do their sounds have the level of complexity as humans do.
  3. Also, a single human speaking in a desert carries no importance. Hence, words only have meaning when the species is social.

Some holy scriptures (Hindu and Christian - I haven’t read them) seemed to have said that the capacity that words have to shape reality is akin to the process that generates reality itself.