They certainly act weird but not universally so and no weirder than you act in your own dreams, perhaps not even weirder than someone drunk. We might characterize those latter states as being unconscious or semi-conscious in some way but that feels wrong. Yes, I know that dreams happen when you’re asleep and hence unconscious but I think that is a bastardization of the term in this case. Also, my intuition is that if a someone in real life acted as weirdly as a the weirdest dream character did, that would qualify them as mentally ill but not as a p-zombie.
They certainly act weird but not universally so and no weirder than you act in your own dreams, perhaps not even weirder than someone drunk. We might characterize those latter states as being unconscious or semi-conscious in some way but that feels wrong. Yes, I know that dreams happen when you’re asleep and hence unconscious but I think that is a bastardization of the term in this case. Also, my intuition is that if a someone in real life acted as weirdly as a the weirdest dream character did, that would qualify them as mentally ill but not as a p-zombie.