By the mean time, the rest of us, we can dig into Stuart A. Kauffman and Stuart Hameroff's ideas on Penrose's counciousness.
http://www.edge.org/memberbio/stuart_a_kauffman http://www.edge.org/conversation/five-problems-in-the-philos...
An updated critic on this ideas by Göran Wendin: http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/qcontrol13/wendin/pdf/Wen...