>quantum consciousness or other nonsense

Can you tell me why it is non-sense?

We, through our senses perceive a world. This world we try to understand using physics. But these perceptions itself stands on top of consciousness. So consciousness is at least, as real as the world that physics conventionally tries to reason about. It could be even more fundamental, because you can have only consciousness in this universe, but still could sense a whole universe with "things" inside it. But without consciousness, and just a universe with "things", there is no "sensing"...

Point is, physics should include study of consciousness...

Have you actually hear him talk about it? It is very far from rambling and he will be the first to tell you that he is not sure he is right.

We need physicists to come up with and develop novel ideas to consider no matter how many of them might be entirely wrong.

You know, I pooh poohed his theories. Still do in sum. But there’s a there there that’s building.

Damn Deepak Chopra and his ilk of idiots for making any conversation of quantum mechanics and biology tinged with pseudoscience. Hopefully we’ll keep getting experimental evidence as we go that it’s not at all absurd to consider quantum effects in biology.

That said, those effects are going to look nothing like sustained coherence for long periods of time.