Deciding to Read This Article Isn’t The Result of Gravity Crushing Your Quantum Spirit

 

A few years ago, deep beneath the Apennine Mountains in Italy, a team of physicists hunted for flashes of light that just might suggest human consciousness is the product of gravitational forces.

 

The fact they came up empty-handed doesn’t mean we’re all meat computers with no free will; it does make the quest for a suitable model explaining consciousness far more of a challenge, however.