Quantum isn't particularly random in the information theoretic sense of the word "random". There's a pretty healthy set of rules already: https://en.wikipedia.o

Quantum isn't particularly random in the information theoretic sense of the word "random". There's a pretty healthy set of rules already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_information The reason it's bad, using a Dennet frame of mind, is that it's a sort of left-handed "skyhook" - throwing "quantum" in the resolve the longstanding divide between Mechanists and those who believe in a Prime Mover or deity. It's an Ex Deux Machina of sorts. I can sympathize with Penrose; his entire career was about measuring the information transforms of things like black holes, so why not apply the same basic recipe to consciousness? It's still an interesting idea, but it's not, SFAIK, testable.