The treatment of Penrose's theory of consciousness by rats is quite disgraceful. I've only heard mockery, no attempts to even weak an the theory (let alone understand or refute it!) Nothing like Aaronson's IIT post – only pure absurdity heuristic (which, if I have to remind, works rather poorly).

And there isn't even an argument from lack of authority – the mockery is directed at someone whose Wikipedia entry lists ~20 "known for" concepts and who got a Nobel prize for finding that