I think you made a mistake.
It should be 'inhabitants possess a body, but no mind'
IMHO, not sure if this is correct, I think
mindless/consciousness-less means the 6 sense consciousness is
temporarily suspended, yet the fundamental ignorance of a 'self'
continues to function, and therefore the karmic seeds are still
defiled.
From the mind-only school point of view, such a being although the
6 sense consciousness is suspended, his 7th consciousness
(consciousness of an egoic self) still exists, and the 8th
consciousness (the storehouse consciousness)
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Yogacara/8cons%20004.jpg
- Yogacara sch on Jhana and Consciousness
* The eighth consciousness
contains seeds, karmic potentials created by previous karmic
activities. The seeds ripen and become actual dharmas as they are
"perfumed" by the karmic activity of the first seven
consciousnesses. The image here is built on an analogy with of
sesame seeds, which take on the fragrance of the sesame plant's
flowers or of any fragrance with which they come into
contact.
