The Continuum

Grusch's taxonomy has five species in it. The plasmoid is the one that breaks every framework we'd use to ask the question.

“It’s a continuum from corporeal bipedal life to what I would consider sentient plasmoid life, but there are several that the US government is aware of.” David Grusch, Capitol steps, June 9, 2026

Start with that word. Continuum. Not a list. Not a catalog of separate phenomena filed under different headings. A continuum, which implies that whatever life is, it stretches further than anyone standing at the bipedal end of it has been willing to seriously consider.