Universal Taxonomy 101
The Prime Metaphor of experience is the co-equal duality between our internal experience of distinguished patterns, and the external Actuality which is the undifferentiated stuff that experience is of.
The two basic categories of physical stuff in the universe are energy and matter.
The two basic classifications of matter are inorganic and organic - that is; things with the potential to become less than they are and things that have the potential to become more than they are.
The two basic classifications of organic things are those with a chemical modulation system ( sentient ) and those with an electrical modulation system ( cognizant ).
The two basic classifications of things with an electrical modulation system are those without the capacity for self-reflection ( p-zombies ) and those with the capacity for self-reflection ( conscious ).
This brings us to where we are today. The two basic classifications of sentient beings are those bound by entropy and those with progressive intent.