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It has implications for morality if the existing definitions of consciousness turn out incorrect or incomplete. It has implications for singularity technologies of mind uploading and cryonics revival if a theory of consciousness can be extended to predict end-of-identity. It's also simply interensting in its own sake.
We had a bad mix or two, of consciousness and QM in the past, already.
Some people demanded a conscious observer to collapse the wave function!
And some people talked about the "quantum nature of consciousness" quite a lot.
Both were quite unnecessary.
I am not saying, that it is therefore forbidden to think about the consciousness and QM at the same time, but that it should be done cautiously, very cautiously, to avoid old mistakes.
Honestly I don't understand the point you're making. It sounds a lot like "we should have a semantic stop sign!" If the people before us have done a piss-poor job of reducing consciousness to physicality, then that should encourage us to do better, not stop work entirely.