Jonathan Moll I thank you for you interesting comments. Following is my reply:

Reproduction, it’s certainly a require for species survival, but not every living entity reproduces, which is the main criteria I’ve proposed for defining a universal purpose for life.

I have not considered “seeking experience” as being a necessary aspect of my premise. Whether a living thing seeks to experience or not, experience is something that all life MUST do, or it would not be alive. Simple awareness of some aspect of a thing’s internal or external environments is experience.

Whether consciousness is an emergent property of matter (e.g., brain), or a metaphysical property a nonphysical mind, doesn’t matter either based on the logic of my proposal, since I’m not addressing what or how experience is created. I do hypothesize, however, the if (a) a superior intelligence (e.g., a Cosmic Consciousness) did create the Universe; (b) space retains data about the quanta comprising our electro-chemical brain activity patterns emerging during every life form’s experience; and c) Cosmic Consciousness is aware of and “understands” those quantum patterns — then it may have purposely made experience the fundamental purpose of life. If there is no Cosmic Consciousness, then the reason why experience is the fundamental purpose of life remains unexplained, but it does not refute that logical conclusion.

Does this make sense?