Comment by TeMPOraL

I 100% agree. My point is that approximately all humans will go through these phases/episodes, and spend some small fraction of their lives below "conscious/sentient/sapient" threshold of whatever metric one could propose - and we should not classify individuals by where they happen to be on that scale at the current point in time.

(In contrast, every bacteria and every amoeba will clock below threshold of any reasonable metric 100% of the time.)