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I don't see how this invalidates the intangibility.Only low grade curses which have little Cursed Energy can phase through solid matter, if a Cursed Spirit has more Cursed Energy then their body winds up being more physical which is kind of an odd choice on Gege's part tbh, that'd be like if a ghost lost the ability to phase through walls and had to opt for breaking them to get past if it was made of more ectoplasm than other ghosts.
That's fair, I forgot the context of the statement specifying a different wavelength of visible light and remembered it as a vague "second form of light" which could easily be interpreted as something more mystical if need be.Cursed Spirits and Jujutsu Sorcery are imperceptible to humans because they're made up of Cursed Energy and Gege went through the more scientific route of explaining that they lie on a second form of the visible light spectrum brains can't process. We aren't told that it's the same case with souls, there are people like Sukuna who learned how to do it by having to share a body with somebody else's soul or people who can do it thanks to their Cursed Technique like Mahito and likely Kenjaku too. It's not like the soul of a Cursed Spirit is on a layer higher than the soul of a Human/Sorcerer either since Yuji's soul perception would be based on his and Sukuna's souls and that's all he needed to harm Mahito's soul. Then there's someone like Daido who is a non-sorcerer that can't see Cursed Energy but learned how to perceive souls likely by advancing as a swordsman to the point that he was in sync with the soul of his katana. Even if JJK and another verse applied the unique light concept to souls, using layering in cross-verse matchups wouldn't necessarily work for the same reason why a dude who can perceive Ultraviolet light wouldn't automatically be assumed to be able to see Infrared and have X-Ray vision too. With JJK it's specifically said to be a second form of the visible light spectrum another verse might operate on another portion of the EM spectrum.
I think curse spirits being called a genus of regular spirits only strengthens my argument here.Gege was asked about Gojo's statement regarding Hanami in the official fanbook. According to both the fan translation and viz translation, it's like cursed spirits are a family whilst whatever Gojo referred to Hanami as (regular spirit/natural spirit depending on the tl) is simply a genus falling under it rather than "regular spirits" being a whole different kind of spirit separate from curses. It's like how Vengeful Spirits like Rika or Naoya and Imaginary Vengeful Spirits like old yokai and local deities fall under the umbrella of Cursed Spirits.