Experience is defined by habit formation, requiring life.

Evidence

I think we may say that an event is ‘experienced’ when it sets up a habit. (Memory is one kind of habit.) Broadly speaking, habits are only set up in living organisms. A burnt poker does not fear the fire, however often it is made red-hot. On commonsense grounds, therefore, we shall say that ‘experience’ is not coextensive with the ‘stuff’ of the world. I do not myself see any valid reason for departing from common sense on this point. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2899

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘experience’ via habit-formation, distinguishing experienced from unexperienced events.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2899
• XREF: connects to: Meditation creates a new default mode of mental operation. — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 886; Feelings accumulate from experience while emotions are immediate survival reactions — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 244; Life as a whole can be perceived as an adventure from a higher standpoint — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 473

Broader Connections

• Meditation creates a new default mode of mental operation. #expands (0.75) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 886
• Feelings accumulate from experience while emotions are immediate survival reactions #expands (0.50) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 244