I agree that Roger Penrose has a very interesting approach to the issues at hand, recognizing the physics of consciousness.
Perhaps it is both. A-G, what I'm really wondering about, right about now, is whether this universal vacuum field (universal primary consciousness) relates to what the cosmologists call "dark energy." And whether "dark energy" is outside of our time concept. To me, it seems to have a quality of timelessness...of being in another time dimension than the one we humans normally experience....
Does this make any sense at all?