There are 5 scales: Heat, Energy, Luminesence, Material, and Unknowable. Fire and Ice, Water and Electricity, Light and Darkness, Air and Earth, and Life and Spirit. These 10 things act as sliders to find the distinct value of all things in the universe. In addition, these characteristics are so universal to our perceived reality that any and all creatures to exist in a similar capacity to us has to sense these things.

Corvids, Elephants, things with tentacles, others, are intelligent enough to communicate. We could find middle ground through the basic sciences and construct a framework to further their and our understanding of the world.