Intriguing theory. If anything comes of this direction of research, then there at least might be some hope for patients of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.
The research articles mentioned in the video:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07936 (open access)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1571064522000197 (open access).
Roger Penrose was brilliant, but he got a lot of flack for his Orch-OR theorem which is being alluded to here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction
I’m still don’t understand what problem his hypothesis was trying to solve though.