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OK....

Now, this _*IS*_ a trick question:

You come across another entity. All you know is that this entity is
intelligent and capable of self-replication. The means are unnecessary
to this discussion. You are genetically identical to a garden spider as
compared to this entity.

How would you communicate? What concept is absolute across the entire
known universe?

OK, so we can't assume it has any sense of sight, touch, taste, smell or
hearing. It may have no sense of self. It may have no spatial awareness.
Existing without an appreciation of time would be difficult for us to
understand but could be possible.

No, I'm stumped. I guess you might be thinking of the concept of an "object"
but that's tied up with spatial awareness, which our entity might not have.