To set the record straight, I didn’t have an answer in mind when I asked the question. Telling @Inspired_2write to try again was because I ran the answer through scenarios and found it false in many instances. @Jeruba, I said I thought you were close because I did the same and couldn’t entirely disprove it anywhere, but wanted more time to think and hopefully discuss. Please don’t take my attempts to disprove it as an attack on you. I was just investigating the statement and trying to poke holes in it if I could to see see how it held up. Also, sorry for mixing you up with @janbb. I typed ”@j” and just hit tab. Hadn’t realized there was already more than one “j” name in the thread at that point.
As for the question itself, it’s not a guessing game. There are correct answer(s), I assume. I’m just looking for at least one thing, hopefully more, that I can put my finger on and say, “This is true for every piece of existence, individually and as a whole—living, dead, and inanimate.” A least common denominator, so to speak.
So far “change” stands up the best to scrutiny.
I was also considering “experience.”
It seems to be a universal truth of life at least.
But then you have to run around some abstract thoughts about inanimate objects. I suppose you could consider, even devoid of consciousness and sensory mechanisms, a plain ‘ol dumb rock to experience… It would only be an experience of pure data transfer—if this:then that. If I get hit like this, I break just like that. etc… But I’m still mulling that one over too if I’m being honest.
Hope this clears things up a tad.