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That's an interesting theory I haven't encountered before, thanks for sharing!

However, I'm not finding anything that suggests to me that Orch OR is really anything more than Penrose catching Nobelitis.

Looking at some of those recent "big results":

• Microtubule-Stabilizer Epothilone B Delays Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness in Rats is making a huge leap from "inhibiting basic cell functions results in delayed offset of anesthesia" to "quantum brain hypothesis proved!!!". It's a very cool result with important implications, but I would be very surprised if there isn't already a well proven existing mechanism to explain the result. If I were to bet it would be related to axonal transport, but that's largely speculative on my part.
• Ultraviolet Superradiance from Mega-Networks of Tryptophan in Biological Architectures is much closer to the kind of experimental result I'd expect, but describes an optical communication medium, not a quantum one. It might have some important implications in biophotonics but that's also a theory worthy of hefty skepticism.

In summary, carry on you crazy bastards! But I don't think you can make any difinitive claims about consciousness and certainly wouldn't consider Stuart Hammeroff and Roger Penrose "the experts on consciousness" especially with how poorly defined and nebulous the concept is.