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Carlo D’Amore is the founder and creative director of Live in Theater, a New York interactive-theatre company creating immersive true-crime mysteries, trials, and audience-led performances.
In this episode of Entangled Health, Carlo joins physicist Thomas Ehmer to explain how interactive theatre helps adults play again, collaborate under uncertainty, and build connection through shared experience.
What is the difference between immersive theatre and interactive theatre? Carlo defines immersive theatre as entering a constructed world, while interactive theatre makes the audience’s choices and conversations part of the performance itself. At Live in Theater, audiences become investigators, jurors, witnesses, and co-creators as they solve fictionalised or real-case-inspired mysteries together.
Thomas and Carlo discuss why true crime works as a participatory format; how performers create high stakes without a fixed script; what happens when groups must listen, improvise, and take social risks; and why adults often lose the ability to play freely. They also explore a harder creative question: when does protecting an audience from discomfort begin to diminish the transformative potential of art?
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About Carlo D’Amore: Carlo D’Amore is an actor, storyteller, and the founder and creative director of Live in Theater, an interactive theatre and gaming company based in New York City.
Live In Theater: https://www.liveintheater.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liveintheater
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlodamore-creator/
Entangled Health with Thomas Ehmer is a long-form podcast and research-media project exploring quantum biology, quantum computing, AI, biotechnology, consciousness research, and the future of medicine. We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
Start here: https://thomasehmer1.substack.com/about
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Disclaimer:
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the host and guest speaking in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of their respective employers, organizations, committees or companies.
Medical Disclaimer:
This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing in this episode should be taken as a recommendation to alter medication or treatment plans. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
Entangled Health with Thomas Ehmer is a long-form podcast and research-media project exploring quantum biology, quantum computing, AI, biotechnology, consciousness research, and the future of medicine. We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
In this episode of Entangled Health, we explore microbial bioelectronics with Princeton’s Joshua T. Atkinson to understand how living cells are being engineered as fast, responsive biosensors for our water infrastructure. Instead of forcing metal and silicon into wet tissue, Josh’s lab asks a different question: What if the biology itself is the wire? We discuss how bacteria move electrons outside their cells, how these pathways can be engineered to detect pollutants, and where quantum effects like spin filtering appear in living biofilms.
Key Concepts Explained:
In this episode, you'll learn:
Timestamps:
[00:00:00] Cold Open: Biosensors for endocrine disruptors
[00:02:15] From deep-sea quorum sensing to microbial electrochemistry
[00:14:30] How Shewanella and Geobacter build living nanowires
[00:26:40] Building biosensors for bisphenol A and breast-cancer drugs
[00:38:15] Spin filtering and magnetic field effects in cytochromes
[00:51:20] Treating biofilms as doped semiconducting channels
[01:05:10] The limits of scale and the future of living infrastructure
Further Reading & Deep Dive:
Read the full web-only Research Companion for this episode, detailing the hypotheses, mechanisms, and failure modes of living electronics: https://thomasehmer1.substack.com/p/bioelectronics-living-wires-microbial-electrochemistry
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Disclaimer:
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the host and guest speaking in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of their respective employers, organizations, committees (including IEEE), or companies.
Medical Disclaimer:
This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The discussion regarding lithium isotopes, biology, and mental health is based on theoretical quantum chemistry and physics, not clinical medical advice. Nothing in this episode should be taken as a recommendation to alter medication or treatment plans. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
Entangled Health with Thomas Ehmer is a long-form podcast and research-media project exploring quantum biology, quantum computing, AI, biotechnology, consciousness research, and the future of medicine.
We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
Lawrence Gasman has spent decades tracking the commercial reality of new technologies across networking, photonics, AI, and quantum. But what happens when the world you are paid to model no longer feels like the whole world?
In this episode, we start with the medium-term commercial applications of quantum AI and quantum robotics. From there, the conversation slips into the unexpected. We trace Lawrence’s early encounters with the students of Alan Turing and the philosophy of Gödel, before moving into the raw phenomenology of his own out-of-body experiences and hospital-induced altered states.
It is a conversation about holding the tension between a highly rigorous economic lens and the deeply unsettling realization that reality, intelligence, and consciousness are far fuzzier than our categories suggest. We live inside the contradiction, looking at the limits of artificial intelligence, the measurement problem, and the philosophical legacy of Brian Josephson.
In this episode, we explore:
Chapter Markers:
00:00 – Cold Open: An Out-of-Body Experience
01:02 – Host Intro: The Commercial vs. The Unknown
03:50 – The Commercial Reality of Quantum AI and Robotics
09:50 – Manchester, Alan Turing, and Gödel's Theorem
16:03 – Anomalous Experiences and Fuzzy Reality
30:19 – Brian Josephson, Collapse, and Biology
40:53 – Subjective Realization and Shifting Frequencies
01:08:48 – ChatGPT, Embodiment, and the Physics of Information
01:12:17 – Closing Thoughts
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Disclaimer:
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the host and guest speaking in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of their respective employers, organizations, committees (including IEEE), or companies.
Medical Disclaimer:
This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The discussion regarding drug use during a bypass operation as a subjective experience. Nothing in this episode should be taken as a recommendation to alter medication or treatment plans. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
Entangled Health with Thomas Ehmer is a long-form podcast and research-media project exploring quantum biology, quantum computing, AI, biotechnology, consciousness research, and the future of medicine.
We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
Laís Lopes is an electrochemist, graphene specialist, and co-founder and CTO of Qnity, a Brazilian deep-tech startup building a new kind of molecular sensor, one that reads binding events directly at the electron level, in real blood and plasma, without fluorescent labels or amplification steps.
In this conversation, we follow her path from hydrogels to graphene to quantum electrochemistry, and into the lab on a night in 2020 when she took real COVID samples, ran them through her graphene sensor, and couldn't sleep afterwards.
We talk about what it means to detect a molecule at attomolar concentrations, roughly one grain of sugar dissolved in an Olympic pool, and why that sensitivity changes what's possible in diagnostics and drug discovery. Laís's team has already demonstrated detection of an Alzheimer's biomarker in blood plasma, head and neck cancer DNA, and dengue and COVID in real clinical samples. Their next step: a multiplexed microfluidic platform for measuring binding affinity in drug discovery pipelines, where small molecules and fragments currently fall below the noise floor of existing tools.
And at the edge of all of it: a question neither of us could fully answer. If electron-level coherence is what makes this sensing possible — does that same coherence scale upward through biology? Is health, at some level, a coherence problem too?
Laís says she doesn't know. I think that's the most honest and interesting place to leave it.
Topics covered:
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Disclaimer:
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the host and guest speaking in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of their respective employers, organizations, committees (including IEEE), or companies.
Medical Disclaimer:
This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The discussion regarding lithium isotopes, biology, and mental health is based on theoretical quantum chemistry and physics, not clinical medical advice. Nothing in this episode should be taken as a recommendation to alter medication or treatment plans. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
Entangled Health with Thomas Ehmer is a long-form podcast and research-media project exploring quantum biology, quantum computing, AI, biotechnology, consciousness research, and the future of medicine.
We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
Quantum reservoir computing, classical echo state networks, and the future of AI in healthcare — explored in this Entangled Health Experiments episode. We trace the path from biological time series (ECG, EEG, glucose, voice) through reservoir computing, NG-RC, and quantum dynamics, asking whether intelligence is something we build or something matter already does. Part of the Entangled Health Experiments mini-series, with a companion six-part Substack series.
This episode is part of Entangled Health Experiments — a special mini-series where we deliberately stress-test ideas in public with tools like Perplexity and NotebookLM as thinking partners. No polished keynote, no finished answers, just live exploration of hard questions at the intersection of quantum science, computation, and health.
In this session, we follow one of the most underappreciated threads in computational medicine: reservoir computing from its classical origins to its quantum frontier and end on a question that refuses to go away: if a bucket of water, an optical fibre loop, a neuromorphic chip, or a handful of quantum spins can process information and remember the past, are we building intelligence, or just learning how to tap into something matter already does?
Read more on substack 6-Part Article: https://thomasehmer1.substack.com/p/i-built-something-here-is-what-it
What we cover:
Why biological time series are so hard. ECG, EEG, continuous glucose monitoring, voice, multi-omics — they are nonstationary, multiscale, noisy, and label-poor. Standard deep learning architectures (LSTM, Transformer) were not designed for this regime.
Reservoir computing as an alternative. Echo state networks, liquid state machines, and next-generation reservoir computing (NG-RC) separate dynamics from learning: fix the reservoir, train only a linear readout. Fast, small-data-friendly, interpretable.
Quantum reservoir computing (QRC). What the exponential Hilbert space actually buys you — and where the encoding bottleneck and dissipation requirement quietly constrain it. Seven qubits matching hundreds of classical neurons is real. But the "2ⁿ" story requires careful unpacking.
The dissipation paradox. Why today's noisy NISQ hardware is sometimes structurally better for reservoir computing than tomorrow's fault-tolerant machines — and what that means for the hardware road
Tools used in this experiment:
Guests are "Sheela and Himbert, the famous voices form NotebookLM - as I did not find names anywhere, I named them.
Content prepared and fed to Sheela and Himbert by perplexity.ai
Sheela and Himbert generated via notebooklm.google.com
Mixed with Logic on Mac.
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Entangled Health with Thomas Ehmer is a long-form podcast and research-media project exploring quantum biology, quantum computing, AI, biotechnology, consciousness research, and the future of medicine.
We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
Yuval Boger is one of the most recognised voices in quantum computing - Chief Commercial Officer at QuEra, host of 200+ episodes of the Superposition Guy or other podcast, violinist who once tuned the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and creator of Quantessa and Atomique, two fictional characters who say the things Yuval can't quite say as himself.
In this conversation we don't start where you'd expect.
We start with a photo. Violin raised. Back to the audience. A caption that says I'm just tuning. And a question about what it actually costs to stand in front of something extraordinary and tell yourself you're only there in a supporting role.
From there - four states of superposition: physicist, operator, communicator, creator. What a master's thesis in fibre optics has to do with the Poincaré sphere and the Bloch sphere. Why Shor's algorithm won't run on anything meaningful tomorrow - and why that's fine. What chronic uncertainty does to the person behind the CCO title. And what Quantessa and Atomique are really allowed to say.
Underneath all of it, one question: what does it actually cost to spend years positioning yourself as the support act?
One question was selected by a real quantum algorithm from the community. As always.
(We made it two, and have a featured Guest question, too)
What we cover:
Find Yuval:
🎙 Superposition Guy podcast - wherever you listen
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuvalboger/
🖼 Quantessa & Atomique comics - https://quantumbitscomics.com/
Hompage QuEra: https://www.quera.com/
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Disclaimer:
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the host and guest speaking in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of their respective employers, organizations, committees (including IEEE), or companies.
Medical Disclaimer:
This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The discussion regarding lithium isotopes, biology, and mental health is based on theoretical quantum chemistry and physics, not clinical medical advice. Nothing in this episode should be taken as a recommendation to alter medication or treatment plans. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
Entangled Health with Thomas Ehmer is a long-form podcast and research-media project exploring quantum biology, quantum computing, AI, biotechnology, consciousness research, and the future of medicine.
We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
In this updated trailer, Thomas explains why he created the show, how each conversation starts with one real question, and why a quantum computer now picks one listener question at random in every episode.
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Credits: the audio in the background is Caravan as performed by my band - funny enough calling itself Ambulant Jazz
Caravan is a Jazz Standard - Juan Tizol (primary originator) and Duke Ellington (co composer/arranger).
Disclaimer:
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the host and guest speaking in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of their respective employers, organizations, committees (including IEEE), or companies.
Medical Disclaimer:
This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The discussion regarding lithium isotopes, biology, and mental health is based on theoretical quantum chemistry and physics, not clinical medical advice. Nothing in this episode should be taken as a recommendation to alter medication or treatment plans. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
Entangled Health with Thomas Ehmer is a long-form podcast and research-media project exploring quantum biology, quantum computing, AI, biotechnology, consciousness research, and the future of medicine.
We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
Does standard chemistry miss the true nature of life?
Dr. Keeper Sharkey joins Entangled Health to explore where hard quantum chemistry meets lived consciousness. Keeper is a quantum chemist and founder of ODE, L3C, a social enterprise using quantum algorithms and high-accuracy molecular simulations to tackle real-world problems, from materials science to cybersecurity.
In this episode, we challenge a 100-year-old scientific dogma: the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, which treats atomic nuclei as simple classical objects. Keeper reveals how treating nuclei as truly quantum entities changes our understanding of biology, drug discovery, and even the nature of the self.
We discuss:
This conversation weaves between equations and experience. From calculating electron density to asking whether we are material systems having thoughts, or thoughts shaping material.
Click here to watch a video of this episode.
About the Guest:
Dr. Keeper Sharkey is a quantum chemist, author, and CEO of ODE, L3C. She chairs the IEEE effort on quantum cybersecurity frameworks and was named one of the “40 Under 40” in cybersecurity. Her work focuses on high-accuracy molecular simulation and the ethical application of quantum technologies.
Connect with Keeper & ODE:
Connect with Entangled Health:
Keywords:
Quantum Biology, Consciousness, Lithium Isotopes, Born-Oppenheimer Approximation, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Quantum Computing, ODE L3C, Panpsychism, Physics of Life.
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Medical Disclaimer:
This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The discussion regarding lithium isotopes, biology, and mental health is based on theoretical quantum chemistry and physics, not clinical medical advice. Nothing in this episode should be taken as a recommendation to alter medication or treatment plans. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
Entangled Health with Thomas Ehmer is a long-form podcast and research-media project exploring quantum biology, quantum computing, AI, biotechnology, consciousness research, and the future of medicine.
We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
Identity is electromagnetic. Dr. Neil Theise – liver pathologist, complexity theorist, Zen practitioner, and author of Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being – explains how hearts entrain to each other's fields, how couples synchronize bioelectromagnetically, and why losing social recognition can trigger an existential crisis. From his recent expat move to Lisbon to the discovery of the interstitium as a body-wide organ system, Neil reveals the physics and complexity theory underlying selfhood and connection.
We explore Zen meditation's role in scientific insight, why Gödel showed that some truths can only be known through intuition, shamanic initiation as a way of "learning to trust what you know," and how Neil's highly anxious mother transformed in her final years into someone living fully in the now. We also touch on end‑of‑life dreams and visions – the “visitations” with deceased loved ones that around 90% of hospice patients report – and what they might mean for consciousness at the edge of death.
00:00 – “Living in the Now”: Mother’s Secret to Happiness
01:10 – Welcome & Setting the Stage
02:56 – Leaving America: An Expat’s Loss of Self
11:20 – How We Become Ourselves: The Recognition Paradox
19:09 – The Heart’s Electromagnetic Field: Quantum Connection
26:51 – Home as Sanctuary: The Space We Create
30:15 – Sacred Spaces, Resonance & Intuition
37:51 – Zen, Science & Gödel: Why Intuition Matters
48:24 – Mother’s Late-Life Bliss & Living Only in the Now
58:29 – Grandmother, Shamanism & Ancestral Healing
1:10:00 – Deathbed Visions, Hospice & Nearly 90% Encounters
1:22:19 – Psychedelics, Ayahuasca & Why It’s “Not His Path”
1:23:56 – Final Reflections, Skeptics & Why Magic Makes Life Better
1:24:42 – Closing: Entangled Health Outro
Referenced book:
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being by Neil Theise.
More about Neil and his work:
https://www.neiltheiseofficial.com
Find a companion "Deep Dive" here: https://open.substack.com/pub/thomasehmer1/p/the-physics-of-recognition-biofields
Click here to watch a video of this episode.
Disclaimer:
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the host and guest speaking in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of their respective employers, organizations, committees, or companies.
Medical Disclaimer:
This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing in this episode should be taken as a recommendation to alter medication or treatment plans. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
IEntangled Health with Thomas Ehmer is a long-form podcast and research-media project exploring quantum biology, quantum computing, AI, biotechnology, consciousness research, and the future of medicine.
We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
n this episode, clinical psychologist and biofield researcher Dr. Shamini Jain reveals how cutting-edge science is validating what healers have known for millennia: consciousness, intention, and sound directly shape our biology. From Woo to True.
What is a biofield?
A field of energy and information surrounding living system, measurable through heart-brain synchronization, heart-rate variability (HRV), and physiological coherence. But biofield science isn't mystical; it's the intersection of quantum biology, neuroscience, and consciousness studies.
The conversation covers:
Coherence as measurable phenomenon
Healing mechanisms: From placebo to salutogenesis
The science of distant healing
Sound as medicine
◦Vaikhari (spoken word)
◦Madhyama (mental speech)
◦Pashyanti (light, intuitive knowing)
◦Para (transcendent, soundless vibration)
Why this changes medicine
Dr. Shamini Jain's mission is to build a science of healing that honors both rigorous measurement and the wisdom of ancient traditions. Her work bridges quantum biology, heart-brain research, and contemplative practice—proving that consciousness is not separate from matter, but fundamental to healing.
Why listen? If healing is measurable, if intention matters, if your consciousness shapes your body—then everything changes about how we approach medicine, therapy, and human potential.
Please check out the further Resources:
Shamini's Press kit https://www.shaminijain.com/about-me/press-kit
CHI: https://www.chi.is/
Homepage: https://www.shaminijain.com/
Book: https://www.shaminijain.com/book
Also check the linked Podcasts.
Substack of Host: https://thomasehmer1.substack.com/
Disclaimer:
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the host and guest speaking in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of their respective employers, organizations, committees, or companies.
Medical Disclaimer:
This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing in this episode should be taken as a recommendation to alter medication or treatment plans. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
TOPICS: #BioFieldScience #HeartBrainCoherence #EnergyHealing #QuantumBiology #IntentionHealing #MantraHealing #SacredSound #ConsciousnessAndHealing #DrShaminiJain #HealingResearch #VagalTone #Salutogenesis #Coherence #AlternativeMedicine
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