Epoophanalia

Of course, string theory is currently stuck in the toilet, it can't advance and all the efforts to do so seem to just diversify (and dilute) its potential as a solution. So using it a basis for a posit on the nature of conscious embodiment is a little...dodgy.

Coming up fast from behind are Loop quantum gravity and Heim theory, the former of which does not initially require extra dimensions (Heim is formulated in 6 dimensions, as I understand it. Not many do understand Heim right now).
Of course, as Smolin says, if there were to be extra dimensions and supersymmetry, loop quantum gravity could accommodate them. So I might be alright after all.

I really don't care right now, to be honest. I'm waiting for the Heim vehicles, close-to-light-speed gravitational-field-manipulating spaceships, so I can be Buck Rogers...