Huh, you've got an interesting observation there - I hadn't considered notional agents to be embodied because the specific location the code runs just isnt that

Huh, you've got an interesting observation there - I hadn't considered notional agents to be embodied because the specific location the code runs just isnt that important, but if we were to posit self aware artificial agents they might have a unifying perspective rooted in the practicalities of computer and network hardware. "If you flip my bits such that error correction cannot detect, does my data not corrupt?" sort of thing.