The Life Cycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang. Irrelevant to your post, in many ways, but it looks to the perspective of a piece of software given a journey over time. All of his work is a fascinating read, but your text reminded me of the sort of somethings that he would write.

How I wish I could magic copies of his anthologies into your hands and discuss all the stories in them with you. They're phenomenal.

That ammonite is a thing, but somethings have meanings to us for their connection to other things. The corporeality and uniqueness of natural objects is a foundational weight in the world. Copies and industrially produced stuff don't seem to carry the same.

We delve deeper into the annals of a nightmarish world described by Jean Baudralard of meaningless objects, with Walter Benjamin wagging a finger knowingly.

Then there's probably Plato in his cave going "its all just a projection".

I suppose thats why touching grass and eating plants feels so good. It is all different. It is all new, organic raw experience.