Not zombie neurons, just zombie imitation neurons. A natural neuron could not be a zombie, but you could make a neuron that you think should function like a natural neuron and it would not be able to be well integrated into the person's consciousness.
That's beside the point. The only requirement is that it be integrated into the person's nervous system. Then the person will behave just as before. So your theory is that a person with artificial neurons integrated into their nervous system will have altered or zero consciousness yet behave perfectly normally.
If the imitation is biological, genetic, and atomic, then it is a very good imitation and I would expect a good chance for success, even if alternate gene sequences or cell architectures were employed. If you cut out the entire biochemical layer, and try to reproduce human consciousness with only solid state electronics, you're going to get different results which would exclude the ability to feel or understand human experience in the absence of a living human.
But there will be no way to know this is the case since the person with the substitute cell architecture will, ex hypothesi, behave exactly the same - including reporting that they feel the same feelings. So your claim that you will get different results is untestable.
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